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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59314, -7.93091
- SMR number
- LF021-043----
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 low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Forts' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that only a short segment of the bank and slight traces of an external fosse survived in the SW quadrant, which had been cut from the rest of the monument by a NW-SE running field boundary. These features have since been levelled and the rath is not visible at ground level. Another rath (LF021-042----) lies c. 50m to the N.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 14 February 2012
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.