Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drummeel, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drummeel
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76226, -7.63460
- SMR number
- LF009-030----
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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 low rise in pasture. A raised D-shaped area (29.5m E-W; 28.5m N-S), with a straight NW side, enclosed from N-S-W by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.3-3.6m; H 0.3-0.5m). A shallow external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.5-1m) is identifiable only from NNE-NE-ENE. From W-NW-N the enclosing elements have been replaced by a modern field bank and drain. A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at NE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.