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
- 53.78043, -7.43590
- SMR number
- LF011-021----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On level, poorly drained pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 33.5m) enclosed from NNE-NE-ENE by a levelled bank of earth and stone (Wth 7m; H 0.2m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.7m). At the base of the scarp at NW is a shallow fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.15m). From WSW-W-NW the scarp has been modified and incorporated into a NNW-SSE field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 18 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.