Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbrack, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.46510, -8.36930
- SMR number
- LE001-004----
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 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
Marked as two conjoined embanked enclosures on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on top of a gentle rise. The E feature is a subcircular, grass-covered earthen platform (dims 25m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m), except E-SE where it is incorporated into a natural slope (H c. 3m). It is truncated slightly by a NNW-ESE field bank at W and a NE-SW field bank at N. There is no indication of a fosse or of an original entrance. The ringfort (LE001-004001-) is just to the NW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revised upload: 11 December 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.