Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartoon,tipper (rathcline By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartoon,tipper (rathcline By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56568, -7.93722
- SMR number
- LF025-004----
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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
In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.3-3.4m; H 0.2-0.6m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.4-3.3m; D 0.3-0.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an outer bank; it has since been levelled. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at N with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. An ENE-WSW running field boundary skirts the rath at NW and another one running NNW-SSE skirts it at NE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.