Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorteenaguinnell, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenaguinnell
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.32864, -8.29776
- SMR number
- LE006-016----
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
Planted with coniferous trees on a S-facing, pasture slope of Glencar valley. Subcircular area (int. dims 34.5m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1-1.4m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified but an oval area (dims 11m E-W; 5.5m N-S) against the inside of the bank at N is bounded by a low bank at S. A N-S field wall overlies the edge of the monument at W, and it is overgrown W of this feature.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.