Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sracummer (rosclogher By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sracummer (rosclogher By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.42816, -8.20708
- SMR number
- LE002-040----
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
Located on a knoll in an undulating landscape c. 650m from the S shore of Lough Melvin. A fragment of a wall-footing (Wth 1.3m; H 0.2m-0.4m) survives N-SSE (Chord c. 15m) at the summit of a rush-covered area from what was known locally as a fort, but the perimeter cannot be traced elsewhere. Archaeological testing (18E0535) for a water-pipe on the farm-lane immediately to the W demonstrated that the road had been excavated into the subsoil and there were no archaeological features remaining (Halpin 2018).
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
Amended: 10 January 2020
References
Halpin, E. 2018 Archaeological testing relating to the proposed developments at Sracummer, Co. Leitrim. Licence No. 18E0535. Unpublished report, Archaeology and Heritage Consultancy
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.