Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Granardkill, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Granardkill
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77598, -7.51653
- SMR number
- LF010-077----
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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 SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed from WNW-N-WSW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.2-6.5m; H 0.3-0.95m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.55m). A shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6.2m; D 0.1-0.3m) is visible at NE and SW and at NE a possible outer bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.3-0.4m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at SE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 15 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.