Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carn, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63675, -7.69437
- SMR number
- LF019-104----
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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 low ridge in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.8m; H 0.4m max.) except from W-WNW-NNW where it has been levelled. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded traces of an external fosse, which has since been infilled. A break (Wth 3m) in the bank at ESE probably marks the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.