Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonfore, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfore
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Big Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.66529, -7.92931
- SMR number
- LF017-007----
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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 low but prominent hillock in pasture. A raised oval area (43.2m WNW-ESE; 30.7m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial, although partially denuded, bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.8m; H 1.1-1.7m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 6.1m; D 1.1m). At the outer lip of the fosse from ESE-SE-S are fragmentary remains of a modern drystone-built field wall. Either of two narrow breaks in bank, at ENE (Wth 1.9m) and at WSW (1.6m), with accompanying causeways may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.