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Ringfort - rath

Annaghmore, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Annaghmore, 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
Annaghmore
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.65012, -7.90380
SMR number
LF018-035----

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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

In pasture surrounded by bog. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911) as an enclosed area defined by a bank and fosse. A field boundary overlay the bank from N-NE and another curved around it from NE to SSW. On inspection in 1976 (SMR file) a curving stretch of a substantial earthen bank, incorporated into modern field fences, was visible at S and W. A ditch on the S side of the bank may have marked the line of the fosse. On an OSI aerial photograph (SMR file) the outline of the E half of the rath is now visible as a curving field boundary, while the W half is visible as a cropmark.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 4 December 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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