Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derryduff, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryduff
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.45770, -8.37122
- SMR number
- LE001-040001-
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 top of a low hillock. Grass covered D-shaped area (dims 20m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a stony scarp (H 1-1.2m) SW-NW with traces of a stone wall-footing at SW. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 2.4m) at WNW. The monument is truncated by a NW-SE field wall at NE and a NE-SW field wall at SW, but the original diameter was c. 40m. A collapsed stone field wall (LE001- 040002-) extends NW (L 20m; Wth 2.4m; H 0.4m) from the perimeter at SW.
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 upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.