Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickglass Demesne (longford By.), County Longford, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.