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Ringfort - rath

Aghareagh (Longford By.), County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Aghareagh, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aghareagh (Longford By.)
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.73016, -7.83510
SMR number
LF013-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a NNE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 67.9m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.1m; H 0.3-0.9m) with a wide, shallow external fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.75m). From W-N-NNE the circuit and the morphology of the bank and fosse have been modified due to their incorporation into a modern field boundary. Elsewhere the outer face of the bank has been steepened. From NNE-E-SE the fosse survives as a very wide, very shallow, extremely waterlogged depression (Wth 9.2m; D 0.1m). From SE-S-SSW it has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A wide break (Wth 4.4m) in the bank at S with an accompanying causeway probably marks the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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