Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockanbaun Or Whitehill, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanbaun Or Whitehill
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73000, -7.62784
- SMR number
- LF015-025----
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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
On a rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure planted with trees and designated 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1970 (SMR file) noted that the rath had been reused as a landscape feature. It has since been levelled and its location is marked by a low, poorly defined mound of earth and stone.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.