Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Longfield Etra, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longfield Etra
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99775, -6.69543
- SMR number
- MO031-018----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a knoll at the bottom of a NE-facing slope and c. 30m S of a NW-SE stream. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The top of the grass-covered knoll is flat (diam. c. 30m) and faint traces of a scarp survive W-N. Archaeological testing (21E0212) by L. Clarke c. 10m to the W at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:069).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 28 July 2017
Amended: 23 December, 2021
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.