Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Formoyle (Farrell), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle (Farrell)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61739, -7.99142
- SMR number
- LF021-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This monument has been levelled. However, the outline of two banks with an intervening fosse, enclosing a subcircular area (c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W), may still be traced. At the perimeter at NW and E are field-clearance cairns. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.