Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownphull, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownphull
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62504, -7.96210
- SMR number
- LF021-019----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SSE-facing slope in wet low-lying pasture. A report in 1977 (SMR file) noted that this slightly raised circular area (diam. 36.5m; H 0.2m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance may have been either at W or N. Within the interior at S were a series of large stones aligned E-W, of unknown significance, with a large boulder lying immediately to the N of the W end. The bank and fosse have since been levelled but the outline of the fosse is indicated by a band of dark grass (Wth 5.5m). The other features noted are no longer evident.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.