Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornadowagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornadowagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59398, -7.93139
- SMR number
- LF021-042----
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 NNE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 38m NNW-SSE; c. 32m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.6m; H 0.4m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.1m), which is identifiable only at SW. The outer face of the bank has been steepened and incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible. Another ringfort (LF021-043----) lies c. 50m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 30 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.