Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghfore (rosclogher By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghfore (rosclogher By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.32296, -8.15828
- SMR number
- LE007-046----
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 an undulating, low-lying landscape at the E edge of the valley of the NNE-SSW Owenbeg River, with the stream c. 800m to the W. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 3.9m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.24m) N-E-S which is reduced to an overgrown scarp (H 0.45-0.65m) elsewhere. An outer fosse is indicated by a band of lush vegetation N-S-W, while an old NE-SW stream or drain is outside the perimeter at NW. The original entrance is not identified, but there are old quarry-holes in the interior W-NW.
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
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.