Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Springtown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Springtown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78134, -7.45452
- SMR number
- LF011-017----
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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 S-facing slope. A raised subcircular area (diam. 42m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-1.75m) to which modern drystone-walling has been applied at SW. At the base of the scarp from WNW-N-NE and at ESE is a largely infilled fosse (Wth 4-5m; D 0.1-0.2m). A depression (Wth 4m) in the scarp at ENE with an accompanying ramp may mark the original entrance. The rath is divided into roughly equal portions by a modern NNW-SSE field boundary.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 18 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.