Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cashelaveela, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelaveela
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.31268, -8.13029
- SMR number
- LE008-019----
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 on a S-facing slope that is on the lower slopes of Dough Mountain and on the N side of Glenfarne valley. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (int. diam 39.5m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.7m) with bushes. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. It is overlain by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at W. Rath (LE008-018----) is c. 200m to the 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.