Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Forgney, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forgney
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54738, -7.69973
- SMR number
- LF027-023----
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 terrace on a NE-facing slope in pasture. A slightly raised oval area (42.5m E-W; 39m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.3-1.6m) with traces of an external fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an outer bank of earth and stone and suggested that the original entrance may have been at NE. This bank is no longer identifiable. A modern-looking entrance is evident at SW. Another ringfort (LF027-024----) lies c. 100m to the E. (CUCAP, AOY062)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.