Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcor, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcor
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78296, -7.54935
- SMR number
- LF010-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 knoll in otherwise level pasture. A raised subcircular area (48m E-W; 42m N-S) enclosed from SW-WSW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; H 0.3m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1.15m). A shallow external fosse (Wth 7.1m; D 0.3m) survives from NW-N-E. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at E.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 17 January 2012
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.