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Ringfort - cashel

Kilroosk, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kilroosk, 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
Kilroosk
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.33657, -8.18679
SMR number
LE007-019----

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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

Situated on a slight rise of rock outcrop on a W-facing slope. It is depicted as an oval embanked enclosure described as a ‘Fort’ only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A NW-SE field wall at SW truncates the outer elements of this cashel on this side and a N-S field wall truncates the outer features on the E side. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 23m WNW-ESE; 18.7m NNE-SSW) defined by the base of a stone wall (Wth 1.6-2.3m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.4-1m) with an entrance (Wth 1.4m) and an external causeway (H 0.4m) at ESE. Outside the wall there is a berm (Wth c. 3m) bordered by a second wall (Wth 2.3-2.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3-0.9m) W-NE and SSE-SSW. Outside this wall there is a berm (Wth 3.8m) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.3m; H 1m) WNW-NNE, but this feature cannot be identified elsewhere. There is a possible souterrain inside the inner enclosure at SW.

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: 12 December 2011
Amended: 8 September 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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