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
- 53.73948, -7.48148
- SMR number
- LF016-005----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a terrace with a stream a short distance to the SW and W. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was at E. The ground level rose from the perimeter to the NW of the centre of the interior where there was a small platform. The rath has since been quarried away.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.