Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonmore, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmore
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70465, -7.87139
- SMR number
- LF013-048----
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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 low but prominent rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 46.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.9m; H 0.7m max.) with an intervening fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 1m), a much-wider outer bank (Wth 5.7m; H 1m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.5m). The outer fosse has been clipped by a N–S running road from WSW-W-WNW. Here at its outer lip there is a low bank of earth and stone, which is probably the remains of a relatively modern field boundary. Corresponding breaks (Wth 2.2m) in the banks at SE with an accompanying causeway mark the original entrance. At W there are also corresponding breaks (Wth 1.9m) in the banks with an accompanying causeway.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.