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Ringfort - rath

Knockbrack, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockbrack, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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