Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Longfield Otra, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longfield Otra
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99294, -6.69049
- SMR number
- MO031-019----
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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
Situated on a broad WNW-ESE ridge. It is depicted as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 40m NNE-SSW; c. 25m WNW-ESE) truncated by a NNE-SSW field bank at W and described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is visible as a slightly raised and grass-covered circular platform (diam. 36.4m NE-SW) divided by a NNE-SSW field bank and also by a WNW-ESE field bank and path. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but the perimeter is most clearly visible NE-SE.
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
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.