Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Wardhouse, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wardhouse
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.45729, -8.34041
- SMR number
- LE001-045----
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
In an undulating landscape. Visible as a subcircular enclosure on aerial photographs (ACAP: V204/54-5). This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 24.5m E-W; 20.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3-5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.45m) with intermittently visible facing-stones, which is rebuilt as a field wall N-E. The original entrance is not identified.
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
References
Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection of the Irish Air Corps
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.