Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Legan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Legan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61872, -7.64785
- SMR number
- LF023-038----
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 E-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was at S. The rath has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.