Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Leargain Riach, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leargain Riach
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.20169, -7.83860
- SMR number
- DG016-008001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diam. c. 26m N-S, c. 22m E-W. A subcircular area enclosed by a ruined stone wall. A modern field wall is built on part of the cashel wall on the E side. Two slabs set transversely to the line of the cashel wall seem to indicate that a 2.45m gap is the original entrance. The interior slopes from S to N and a ridge of rock crosses the S side of the site E-W. There is a subcircular foundation (DG016-008002-) c. 3.5m in diameter on the E side of the site. The site is located on a knoll of rock dropping steeply 4m to 5m on the S and E but less so on the N and W. There is light pasture around the site but also much rock outcrop.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.