Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorteenboy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenboy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67681, -7.83583
- SMR number
- LF018-011----
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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
At the SE end of a prominent NW-SE ridge in low-lying pasture. A raised subcircular area (39.8m ENE-WSW; 33.6m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.6m; H 0.6-1.1m) with fragmentary traces of an infilled external fosse (Wth 2.9m). From SSW-W-WNW the outer face of the bank has been steepened and incorporated into a field boundary. A modern pathway has been laid upon the line of the fosse. The present entrance at NNE does not appear to be original.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.