Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron Big,Cartron Little, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron Big,Cartron Little
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72844, -7.73802
- SMR number
- LF014-031----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34.9m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone that has been modified from S-W-N where it is incorporated into a field boundary. Elsewhere it has been levelled but its outline (Wth 3.4m) is still identifiable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded slight traces of a shallow external fosse. This has since been infilled and, again, only its outline (Wth 3.2m) is identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- 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.