Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeen (granard By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (granard By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77646, -7.56312
- SMR number
- LF010-063----
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 NE-facing slope. A raised almost circular area (35.5m E-W; 34.5m N-S) enclosed from ESE-S-N by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4-4.8m; H 0.4-0.75m) and defined at NNE and at E by a scarp (H 0.9-1.4m). An external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3-0.5m)is evident from SE-S-SW. At NE the enclosing element and a small portion of the interior have been quarried away. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.