Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartronamarkey, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartronamarkey
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79786, -7.57901
- SMR number
- LF010-008----
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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
Close to the base of a NW-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (39m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.85-1.3m), with a fosse (Wth 3.8-4.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) from WSW-N-NE and from E-ESE. An outer bank (Wth 3-5m; H 0.4-0.75m) is identifiable from W-WNW, from NNW-N-NE and from E-ESE. At ENE the outline of the levelled fosse and outer bank are marked by a berm (Wth 3.5-4m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SE and noted a small shallow depression, of unknown significance, in the interior at SW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 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.