Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skreeny Little, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skreeny Little
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.31059, -8.15714
- SMR number
- LE007-077----
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
Marked as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’ in gothic lettering. It is located in a low-lying position with a small N-S stream c. 10m to the E and c. 110m from where the stream enters a NE-SW section of the Owenmore River. This is an overgrown oval platform (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3m; H 0.5m) at S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse and an 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.