Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknaclassagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaclassagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.32907, -8.35540
- SMR number
- LE006-011----
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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
Towards the bottom of a steep N-facing slope in Glencar valley. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 20m E-W; 18.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1m) with some bushes NE-S-SW which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere and an external fosse best preserved at S (Wth 4m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified, but the monument is overlain by a NNE-SSW field bank towards the edge at W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.