Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grassyard, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grassyard
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78483, -7.48675
- SMR number
- LF010-050----
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 shelf of level ground on a NW-facing slope. A raised subcircular area (58m E-W; 53.5m N-S) enclosed from SSE-S-W by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3-5.3m; H 0.2m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.4-1m), with an intervening shallow fosse (Wth 2.7-5.2m; D 0.1-0.5m) from S-SW-W and a low outer bank (Wth 2.9-3m; H 0.3m) from SSW-SW. From NE-E-S the enclosing element has been straightened to accommodate a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 12 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.