What is recorded here
Rathbrackan is a lost fort on a NE-facing slope in County Longford, reduced to a low scarp and pasture. It appeared as a D-shaped enclosure on the 1837 map, but ploughs and time have taken most of its form. What remains is a thin edge of earth, yet that edge still points back to the hand that shaped it.
On a NE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’. The monument has been levelled and all that survives is the remains of a scarp (H 0.1-0.8m) from WSW–W–N and from E–SE–S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 6 February 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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