Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Feraghfad, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feraghfad
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71107, -7.75256
- SMR number
- LF014-066----
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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 SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 49.7m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.9m; H 0.7m max.) with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 6.8m; D 0.9m). It is divided into unequal portions by a modern NE-SW field boundary. The much-smaller portion, to the SE, has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable, albeit with some difficulty. A break (Wth 3.7m) in the bank at NNE with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. Projecting into the interior from the inner face of the bank at N is a large, irregularly shaped mound of earth and stone (20.4m E-W; 17.4m N-S; max. H 0.6m) of unknown significance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 6/1985).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.