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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72933, -7.63047
- SMR number
- LF015-026----
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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 SE-facing slope in pasture. An undated report (SMR file) recorded a circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a low earthen bank (H 0.5-0.75m), best preserved at W, with a shallow external fosse that had been deepened at W to form part of a field drain. The original entrance was not recognisable. The report suggested that the monument may have been a ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature as numerous tree stumps protruded from the bank and the interior. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 18 February 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.