Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cavan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cavan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77159, -7.66931
- SMR number
- LF009-021----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise within a hollow. A raised subcircular area (44.3m N–S; 42m E–W) enclosed from NNW–N–ENE and from SE–S–WSW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.8-6.2m; H 0.65-0.9m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.9-2.2m). A wide intervening fosse (Wth 6.4-8m; D 0.7-1.5m) and an outer bank (Wth 4-6.4m; H 1-1.5m) are also evident. The external face of this bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. A wide break (Wth 7m) in the inner bank at ENE may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.