Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawnyfeacle, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnyfeacle
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.30715, -8.14513
- SMR number
- LE008-015001-
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 on a S-facing slope c. 25m N of an E-W section of the Owenmore River at the W end of the Glenfarne valley. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 31.5m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a steep-sided, round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.5-1.5m) with some bushes, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) at N. There are slight traces of a fosse (Wth 3m) at NW, but the original entrance is not identified. There is a rectangular house site (int. dims 10.5m x 4.9m) defined by a grass-covered wall foundation (Wth 1.3m; max. H 0.45m) in the interior against the bank at 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.