Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ferskill,tonywardan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ferskill,tonywardan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74725, -7.51531
- SMR number
- LF015-019----
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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 S-facing slope in rolling pasture. A raised oval area (c. 42m E-W; c. 34m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.1m; H 0.1m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded an intervening fosse and an outer bank but the latter appears to be a later field boundary. A break (Wth 3.2m) in the bank at SE may mark the original entrance. The internal ground level slopes appreciably from N to S. It is densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.