Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilglass And Cloonagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilglass And Cloonagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62937, -7.64780
- SMR number
- LF023-034----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed at N by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; H 0.4m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.2-1.4m). At the base of the scarp at NW is a shallow fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.3m). There is a break (Wth 4.5m) in the bank at N and depressions in the scarp at NE (Wth 1m), SSW (Wth 2m) and WSW (Wth 2m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.