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
- 53.80387, -7.47344
- SMR number
- LF011-003----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a terrace on a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34m) is defined from SE-S-NE by a scarp (H 1.8-2.8m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.3-0.7m) from S-SSW-SW and from NW-N-NE. A NNW-SSE running road cuts through the rath from NE-E-SE. A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SW. Another rath (LF 011-002----) lies c. 12m to the W.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.