Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brackary Beg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackary Beg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.33099, -8.16368
- SMR number
- LE007-021----
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
Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a drumlin in the valley of the N-S Owenbeg River, with a NE-SW section of the stream c. 50m to the SE. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 32.5m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.25m). There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified, but the enclosure had been surrounded by field banks, now removed.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.