Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boyannagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boyannagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.46940, -8.21011
- SMR number
- LE002-004----
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
At the summit of an E-W ridge. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (int. diam. 34m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by a round-topped, steep-sided, overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.95m; int. H 0.3m at W to 0.45m at N; ext. H 0.3m at W to 1m at N) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.15m). The original entrance is not identified, but the monument is truncated by a field bank at S. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest (Bing c. 2013).
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.