Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Gortinar, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortinar
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.33662, -8.22396
- SMR number
- LE007-015----
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
Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape on the floor of the Glenade valley with a N-S section of the river Bonet c. 400m to the E. Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 5/6929-8). This is a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 10.5m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.1-0.15m; ext. H 0.4m). It is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at N.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.