Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killashee And Aghakeeran, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killashee And Aghakeeran
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68786, -7.88040
- SMR number
- LF018-003----
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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 gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. 49.5m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. There was no trace of a fosse. Immediately outside the bank at SW was a disused quarry. The original entrance was not recognisable. A linear NW-SE field drain divided the interior into roughly equal portions. The rath has since been levelled and only the outline of its perimeter is identifiable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.