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Linear earthwork

Lattone,Gortnaderrary, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, Lattone, Gortnaderrary, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lattone,Gortnaderrary
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Worm Ditch or Black Pigs Race
Coordinates
54.37106, -8.07456
SMR number
LE005-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in an undulating but low-lying landscape c. 600-800m W of the County River and the boundary with Co. Fermanagh. This section (L c. 2km) of the Worm Ditch or the Black Pigs Dyke is oriented N-S. It is generally overgrown with scrub but is sometimes grass-covered and in places runs through coniferous forest, where it remains unplanted but overgrown. It consists of a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.6m), while at some points it has naturally lower ground to the E (Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 1-1.6m), sometimes with a field bank on the outer (E) edge of the fosse. The N end terminates in a flat-bottomed valley and the S bank of a W-E section of the Lattone stream, but it is continued c. 300m to the N by a short section (LE005-009-), while the S end is c. 300m NW of Lough Tiernan, a small oval lake (max. dims c. 350m N-S; c. 140m E-W). The earthwork commences again (LE008-009---) c. 150m SW of the lough and c. 400m SSE of the S end of this section.

This section is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 653

See the attached view looking N _1

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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