Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Gubalaun, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gubalaun
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39729, -8.11603
- SMR number
- LE005-003010-
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
An overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 1.5m) curves N and W (C 20m) from the site of St Mogue’s well (LE005-003003-), but there is no indication that it was the bank of a rath. It may be part of the earthwork known as the ‘Whiskey Ditch’ that was an S-shaped earthen bank, which was used to provide shelter from the elements to visitors to St Mogue’s church and well (Fuaghnan 1943, No. 126).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January, 2015
References
Faughnan, D. 1943 ITA topographical and general survey. Ballinamore Library, Co Leitrim, (file no. 140). Unpublished.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.