Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Prucklishtown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prucklishtown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75898, -7.58785
- SMR number
- LF010-098----
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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 drumlin hill in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-4.3m; H 0.2-0.95m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.3m), which is identifiable only at S. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded traces of a possible outer bank at N. The original entrance is not recognisable
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.