Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolcor, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcor
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79112, -7.56805
- SMR number
- LF010-030----
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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a SSW-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (46m E-W; 42m N-S) enclosed from ENE-E-SE and at SW and NW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5-5.7m; H 0.5-0.6m). Elsewhere the defining element is a scarp (H 0.7-1.9m). An external fosse (Wth 5.7-7.7m; D 0.5-0.6m) is evident from WNW-NW and from ENE-E-S. A break (Wth 4.5m) in the bank at ESE marks the original entrance. The rath is divided into unequal portions by a NE-SW field boundary.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.