Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyglass, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.31969, -8.21638
- SMR number
- LE007-039001-
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 in a slight col of a N-S outcrop ridge, overlooking the head of a S-N valley just to the W and with a steeper valley to the E. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 24m E-W; 20.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (at S: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m), with internal and external facing-stones and some bushes, which is reduced to a stony scarp W-NW and is absent at N. There is an external fosse or ditch (Wth 1.8m; D 0.25m) E-S and a causewayed entrance (Wth 1.2m) at SSE. Souterrain (LE007-039002-) is in the interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.