Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corboy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corboy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71869, -7.68557
- SMR number
- LF014-077----
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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
In level, low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. Most of the W half had been destroyed due to the construction of a modern NW-SE roadway. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rest of the rath has since been levelled but its outline may still be traced in a number of places, albeit with difficulty.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.