Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laghlooney, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laghlooney
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63909, -7.81678
- SMR number
- LF018-063----
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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
In rolling pasture overlooking an extensive area of marshland to the NE. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. 40.9m) enclosed by a much-denuded low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.1m; H 0.4m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.2m). A wide break (Wth 3.8m) in the bank at SE may mark the original entrance. The interior slopes appreciably from SW-NE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.