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Ringfort - rath

Cloonfore, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonfore, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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