Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeenboy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenboy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60910, -7.65872
- SMR number
- LF023-074----
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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
Close to the base of a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed from NNW-N-SW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-3.5m; H 0.3m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-N-NNE. Elsewhere the bank has been levelled and the defining element is a scarp (H 1.3-1.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded traces of an external fosse, which has since been infilled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Within the interior is an irregularly shaped depression (max. dim. 1.5m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.