Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlerea Mountain, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlerea Mountain
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65335, -7.75334
- SMR number
- LF019-063----
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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
On the W-facing slope of a high ridge. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed from NE-ENE-E by a low bank of earth and stone. From E-S-SSW the circuit and morphology of the bank had been altered where it had been incorporated into a NE-SW field boundary. Elsewhere the defining element was a low scarp (H 0.4m). There was no trace of a fosse and the original entrance was not recognisable. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub rendering inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.