Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardagh Demesne, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardagh Demesne
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67362, -7.68528
- SMR number
- LF019-046----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 knoll in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that this knoll, which is circular in plan (diam. c. 45m), was enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone, with an intervening fosse and traces of an outer bank at S. None of these features are visible and it is defined by a scarp (H 0.5m), which rises towards the S (H 1.1-1.3m). An entrance is not recognisable. The monument has been planted with coniferous trees.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.