Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghchurnel, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghchurnel
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80374, -7.47433
- SMR number
- LF011-002----
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 terrace on a NE-facing slope. A raised oval area (34.5m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.6m), which has been has been modified and incorporated into a field bank from ESE-S-SW. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Another rath (LF 011-003----) lies c. 12m to the E.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.