Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61390, -7.79897
- SMR number
- LF022-020----
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 NE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed from W-N-NE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; H 0.1m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.5m). At the exteranl base of the scarp at S are traces of a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.1m). A break (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at W may mark the original entrance. Some outcropping rock is evident within the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 3 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.