Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghakilmore, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghakilmore
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80276, -7.59276
- SMR number
- LF010-003----
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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 shelf of level ground on a NE-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed from WSW-N-ENE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.7-4.3m; H 0.4-0.7m). From S-SW-WSW the bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Elsewhere the defining element is a scarp (H 0.8-1m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded an intervening fosse and an outer bank that are no longer identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable.
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.