Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Aghinaspick, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghinaspick
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65325, -7.79031
- SMR number
- LF018-053----
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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 low rise in pasture, c. 15m to the E of a stream. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1987 (SMR file) recorded that, although largely levelled, fragmentary traces of a bank of earth and stone with a possible internal fosse, enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 34m), were still distinguishable. The original entrance may have been at E. More levelling has since occurred. The monument is divided into two unequal portions by a NW-SE field boundary. The larger portion, to the NE, is marked by a shallow depression. The smaller portion is marked by a low, irregular rise.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.