Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumdillure, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumdillure
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32303, -8.26385
- SMR number
- LE007-034----
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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 in reclaimed pasture on top of and at the centre of an E-W drumlin ridge (L of top c. 300m). It is visible as a slight circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 370-69). This is a circular area (diam. 18.2m E-W; 17.9m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.15m) and an external band of rushes (Wth 1-2m). The original entrance is not identified and the perimeter is slightly truncated (L c. 15m) at E by a NNW-SSE field bank. Rath (LE007-035----) is c. 90m to the E.
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
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.