Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghinaspick,toneen (moydow By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghinaspick,toneen (moydow By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65748, -7.78873
- SMR number
- LF018-048----
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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 highest point of a NW-SE ridge in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 32.1m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1m; H 0.8m max.) with an external fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.5m). From WNW-N-ENE the outer face of the bank and the fosse have been modified and incorporated into a field boundary, which also forms the division between the two townlands. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded traces of a possible stone revetment on the inner face of the bank at NW and suggested that the original entrance may have been at NE. These features were not identified but the rath is very overgrown with scrub rendering detailed inspection very difficult.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.