Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Keeloges, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keeloges
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.40017, -8.30690
- SMR number
- LE003-015----
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
On a low rise on the floor of Glenade valley. Grass and scrub-covered oval area (int. dims 25m NNW-SSE; 21m ENE-WSW) defined by a round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.9m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.3m) E-S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere and which is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse, best preserved E-S (Wth of base 2.25m; D 0.25m), from an external bank (Wth 3m; H 0.25m) NE-E-SSW. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway are at SE.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.