Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ratharney, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ratharney
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59974, -7.65104
- SMR number
- LF023-102----
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 NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 80m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.7m; H 0.55m) from ESE-S-NW and elsewhere defined by a low scarp (H 0.8m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded traces of a wide external fosse and a possible outer bank but these are no longer visible. The original entrance is not evident.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.