Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laughil (Ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughil (Ardagh By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68282, -7.72681
- SMR number
- LF019-013----
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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
On a gentle E-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 27m) enclosed from SE-S-ENE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4-3.6m; H 0.3-0.4m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.3m). A narrow, shallow external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.15m) is evident from NW-NNW-N. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance. A modern WNW-ESE field boundary skirts the rath at S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.