Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghavoghil, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghavoghil
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.42142, -8.21222
- SMR number
- LE002-031----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within a coniferous forest on a steep N-facing slope towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of the Dartry mountains, with a SE-NW section of a stream c. 45m to the E. Depicted as an embanked enclosure and described as a fort on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature (diam. c. 35m) on the 1907 ed. An earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) with no visible fosse defines the E side of an enclosure, the rest of which has been quarried away.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tomb1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.