Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooleeny, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleeny
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72267, -7.74930
- SMR number
- LF014-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 WSW-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. 33.4m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 7.4m) has since been levelled and the defining element is a scarp (H 0.7-1.6m). The fosse (Wth 5.7m) is still visible. An ENE-WSW running field boundary cuts the monument at SSE. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 29 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.