Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Tullaghan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaghan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.47329, -8.31565
- SMR number
- LE001-034----
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
On a low rise (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 50m N-S) S of the Drowes River and immediately N of the NE-SW N15 road. A fosse (L 26m; Wth of base 4m; max. D 2m) runs NW-SE across the centre of the grass-covered rise, with a bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 1m) on either side. It may have been a part of the Black Pig’s Dyke that forms a boundary between many of the lakes in north Leitrim, but there is no other evidence of the earthwork eastwards to Lough Melvin, c. 5km to the ESE, although slight traces of it (L c. 55m) might be detected curving NW from its visible NW end towards the mouth of the River Drowes.
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
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.