Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughwheelion Or Moneyadda, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughwheelion Or Moneyadda
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.01156, -7.80822
- SMR number
- OF043-002----
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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
Situated on NE facing slope of low ridge in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 37m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) and filled in fosse with possible entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at East.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.