Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garvagh (Granard By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garvagh (Granard By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76206, -7.66561
- SMR number
- LF009-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in well-drained pasture. Depicted as a bivallate circular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. An report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that it had been levelled and, while all that survived was a small section of the fosse at SW, it was probably a ringfort. The fosse has since been infilled and the monument is not visible at ground level. Archaeological testing in 2003 prior to the construction of a dwelling house in its vicinity yielded no archaeological features or artifacts (Purcell 2006, 319).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 24 January 2012
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.