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
- 53.54739, -7.69767
- SMR number
- LF027-024----
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 report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised oval area (42m WNW-ESE; 32.5m NNE-SSW) was defined by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is enclosed by a broad low scarp (H 0.2-0.7m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Another ringfort (LF027-023----) lies c. 100m to the W.(CUCAP, AOY 62)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
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.