Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Oldtown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69402, -7.69743
- SMR number
- LF014-105----
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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
In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 44.5m) enclosed by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1m; H 0.5m max.), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SSW–W-WNW. A wide, very shallow external fosse (Wth 5.7m; D 0.1m) is evident from SE–S–SSW. The rath is divided into unequal portions by a NE–SW field boundary. The smaller portion, to the NW, has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 17 January 2012
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.