Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mornin, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mornin
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62261, -7.74658
- SMR number
- LF023-006----
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 SW-facing slope in wet, low-lying pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a substantial, although partially denuded, bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 0.45-0.8m). Its internal face is revetted with boulders and drystone masonry. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse, which has since been infilled. A break (Wth 3m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.