Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Carnan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65626, -7.62840
- SMR number
- LF020-029001-
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 gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A raised subrectangular area (c. 33m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW) enclosed from NE-E-SE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.2m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m). A wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m) has been partially infilled from NE-E-SE. There is a possible house (LF020-029002-) at the N angle of the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 9 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.