Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mornin, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mornin
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62392, -7.73255
- SMR number
- LF023-010----
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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
In wet, low-lying pasture. A raised oval platform (c. 41m N-S; c. 32m E-W) enclosed from N-E-S by a low bank of earth and stone (H 0.3m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a wide, deep, external fosse, which is identifiable only at E (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3m). From E-SE-S the bank has been incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. Immediately to the E of the rath is a raised area (c. 48m N-S; c. 29m E-W), lunate in plan, defined by a scarp (H 1m) with an external fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.8m). Both have been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from ESE-SE-S. Its original entrance is not identifiable.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.