Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castlerea Mountain, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlerea Mountain
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65590, -7.75118
- SMR number
- LF019-119----
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 hill within a plantation of coniferous trees. According to local tradition, there was a 'stone fort' on the summit of the hill. No visible surface trace was found.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.