Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartrons (longford By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartrons (longford By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74033, -7.81942
- SMR number
- LF013-011----
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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
In wet low-lying pasture. A raised roughly oval area (48.7m NNW-SSE; 33.1m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4m; H 1.1m max.) with a shallow, waterlogged, external fosse (Wth 2.9m; D 0.3m). From W-N-NNE the circuit and morphology of the bank have been modified where it is incorporated into a NE-SW field boundary. A break (Wth 1.7m) in the bank at ENE with traces of an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. The ground level of the NE half of the interior is considerably higher than that of the SW half. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.