Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawnymoyle, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnymoyle
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.31145, -8.24921
- SMR number
- LE007-062----
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 on top of, and at the centre of, a prominent E-W drumlin ridge (L of top c. 350m E-W). This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 34m E-W; 29.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes SW-N, best preserved at W (Wth 5.3m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.9m), which is incorporated into a field bank at E and reduced to a scarp (max. H 2.3m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified.
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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.