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Ringfort - cashel

Wardhouse, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Wardhouse, 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
Wardhouse
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Laghta
Coordinates
54.46512, -8.34786
SMR number
LE001-050001-

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

On top of a knoll. Marked only on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6 inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Laghta'. This is a grass-covered oval area (int. dims 26m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by a stone-covered scarp surmounted by a field wall. The original entrance is not identified. A hollow (dims 4.4m x 2.2m; D 0.4m) inside the perimeter at S may be a souterrain.

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

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

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