Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Shesknan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shesknan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.40667, -8.32994
- SMR number
- LE003-007001-
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
Situated on a knoll towards the bottom of a steep E-facing slope at the NE foothills of Tievebaun Mountain, with a small W-E stream c. 10m to the N and a small S-N stream c. 20m to the E. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 24m E-W; c. 23m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3m; H 0.3m-0.5m) SW-NW, a stoney scarp (H 1-1.4m) NW-NE and the perimeter is incorporated into a stone road bank NE-S. The perimeter is covered in scrub and holly trees, but it cannot be traced S-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the mass-rock (LE003-00702-) abuts the outside of the perimeter at NW.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.