Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrylough, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrylough
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59654, -7.85603
- SMR number
- LF022-030001-
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 very gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (c. 44m N-S; c. 38m E-W) enclosed by a much-denuded low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.3m; H 0.3m) with a largely infilled fosse (Wth c. 3m). A break (Wth 2.2m) in the bank at SE may mark the original entrance.
The ground level of the interior is uneven; a possible house site (LF022-030002-) is visible in the NW quadrant.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 10 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.