Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gorteenaguinnell, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenaguinnell
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32874, -8.29227
- SMR number
- LE007-025004-
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 at the top of a S-facing cliff (H c. 20m) overlooking the Glencar valley to the S and W and on the site of the bivallate cashel (LE007-025001-). A rectangular annexe (int. dims 18m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by a double-faced drystone wall (Wth 0.7-1m; H 0.7-1.3m) was built to the E of the cashel (LE007-025002-), connecting with its surviving inner wall-face.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 January, 2016
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.