Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Currycreaghan,torboy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currycreaghan,torboy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62624, -7.76331
- SMR number
- LF023-004----
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 SE-facing slope in undulating pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 37m E-W; c. 33m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.6m; H 0.3-0.6m). A roadway skirts it from NW-N-NNE. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is divided into unequal portions by a disused N-S pathway.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.