Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fortwilliam, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortwilliam
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61171, -7.97587
- SMR number
- LF021-027001-
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 NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (62.2m E-W; 55.7m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5m; H 1m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.35m). Both the bank and fosse are very degraded due to cattle-trampling. In addition, from W-N-NNE the fosse has been filled up with rubble in recent years. A break (Wth 2.8m) in the bank at S with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. There are also modern entrances at NNE and WSW. Within the interior is a souterrain (LF021-027002-). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a series of low banks, of uncertain significance, outside the fosse which are no longer visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.