Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Turreen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turreen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63890, -7.96309
- SMR number
- LF017-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Site of' on the 1883 revised edition. The monument has been levelled and house and garden occupy its interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 18 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.