Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooleeshil Or Richfort, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleeshil Or Richfort
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68106, -7.71535
- SMR number
- LF019-016----
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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 low rise in pasture. Depicted as an enclosed circular copse of trees on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow intervening fosse and an outer bank. The outer bank was identifiable only at S. Both banks have since been levelled and the fosse infilled. The defining element is a scarp (H 0.4m) at S and W. Mature deciduous trees, predominantly larch, are growing on the monument. Possibly a ringfort that was subsequently landscaped. (CUCAP, BGI 1)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 9 February 2012
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.