Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aughine, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughine
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66433, -7.78281
- SMR number
- LF018-033----
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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 SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 35.8m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 0.45m max.) with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 0.9m) and what may be the outline of a levelled outer bank (Wth c. 3m). From SSW-W-NW the circuit and morphology of the bank and fosse have been altered where they have been incorporated into modern linear field boundaries. A break (Wth 4.1m) in the bank at SE with an accompanying causeway probably marks the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.