Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skreeny (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skreeny (drumahaire By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.31400, -8.16736
- SMR number
- LE007-072----
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 a rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape at the W end of the E-W Glenfarne valley, with a small NNE-SSW stream c. 50-85m distant SW-NW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m) defined by an overgrown, steep-sided and round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.15m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.15). The original entrance is not identified and It is now used as a paddock.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.