Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (Shrule By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (Shrule By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54356, -7.77405
- SMR number
- LF027-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a large subcircular tree-planted enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a roughly circular enclosure on the 1914 ed. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that, although levelled, the outline of the perimeter of the monument could still be traced defining a roughly circular area (diam. 45m). Further levelling has since occurred and it is not visible at ground level. Possibly a rath that was subsequently landscaped.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.