Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killasona, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killasona
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74575, -7.47833
- SMR number
- LF016-001----
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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 NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 46m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; H 0.1-0.6m), a wide deep intervening fosse (Wth 6.8m; D 1.4m) from W-NW-N and an outer bank (Wth 4-3.8m; H 0.5m). The inner bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SW-WSW and has been largely levelled at NW and at N. The rath is divided into unequal portions by a modern NE-SW roadway. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.