Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Listobit, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Listobit
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59635, -7.74645
- SMR number
- LF023-084----
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 the slightly S-facing slope of a low ridge in reclaimed pasture. Not marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described in a report in 1976 (SMR file) as a large circular rath (int. diam. c. 43m) defined by a bank, intervening fosse and outer bank. The entrance was at SSW. A field boundary ran along the perimeter at E, where no trace of the fosse or outer bank survived. It is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 4 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.