Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron Big, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron Big
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72597, -7.72902
- SMR number
- LF014-038----
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
To the SW of the highest point of a rise in otherwise low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 28.4m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.6m; H 0.2-0.8m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.9m; D 0.3m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank, which has since been destroyed due to land reclamation. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.