Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghnasillagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghnasillagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64530, -7.71198
- SMR number
- LF019-098----
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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 gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. From S-SW-W the bank and fosse have been incorporated into a NW-SE field boundary. Elsewhere they have been levelled and the defining element is a low scarp (H 0.2-0.4m). The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.