Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66366, -7.60146
- SMR number
- LF020-025----
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
In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-4m; H 0.4-0.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m), which has been infilled at W and NW. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a wide low bank of earth and stone at the outer lip of the fosse from W-N-ENE; it has since been levelled. Elsewhere its circuit is preserved in modern, curving, field boundaries. There are entrances at WNW (Wth 2m) and at NW (Wth 1m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.