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Ringfort - rath

Carrickglass Demesne (Longford By.), County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrickglass Demesne, 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
Carrickglass Demesne (Longford By.)
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.73781, -7.73693
SMR number
LF014-010----

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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 gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 32.9m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8m; H 0.65-1.2m) with a very wide deep intervening fosse (Wth 8m; D 1.2m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.3m); the latter is only visible from NNE-E-ESE. Elsewhere it has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. A break (Wth 3.1m) in the banks at ENE with an accompanying causeway may mark 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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