Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clontumpher, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clontumpher
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78319, -7.71899
- SMR number
- LF009-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a terrace on a SW-facing slope. A raised subcircular area (c. 40m E-W; c. 37m N-S) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5-8m; H 0.2-1.25m) from SSW-N-S, and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H1.3-1.4m), with an intervening fosse (Wth 5-7m; D 0.6-1.2m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.4-6.4m; H 0.6-1.5m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at S. A bullaun stone (LF009-038----) lies at the centre of the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.