Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leckanarainey, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leckanarainey
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.35055, -8.24131
- SMR number
- LE007-004----
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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
Located on top of a gentle rise on the floor of the NW-SE Glenade valley with the NW-SE Bonet River c. 90m to the SW. It is not marked on any map but is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 5/6932-1). This is a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 22m NNE-SSW; c. 16m WNW-ESE) defined by a slight scarp, but it is truncated by a relict NNE-SSW field bank at NW. The original entrance is not identified
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
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.