Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rincoolagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rincoolagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74624, -7.44821
- SMR number
- LF016-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 47m) defined from WNW-N-S by a scarp (H 0.3-1.15m). A NW-SE laneway cuts the monument at S; at its outer edge are the remains of a possible fosse (Wth c. 7m; D 0.8-0.9m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 15 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.