Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolamber, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolamber
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71461, -7.46639
- SMR number
- LF016-017----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 5m; H 0.3-0.65m) at W and from NNW-N, and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.75-1.5m) with a wide shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6-7m; D 0.6-1.05m) and from WSW-W-NNW an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.4-0.8m). The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.