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Ringfort - rath

Boleyboy, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Boleyboy, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Boleyboy
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.31042, -8.12392
SMR number
LE008-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a SW-facing slope of a rise on the lower S-facing slope of Dough Mountain and on the N side of Glenfarne valley. It is not depicted on any map but a circular feature is visible on aerial photographs from the 1970s and later. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 22.2m NNW-SSE; 19.6m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.8-4m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 6.2-6.4m; ext. D 0.2m at E to 0.7m at N) that only survives WNW-E. The original entrance at ESE is visible as a slight dip (Wth 2m) in the lip of the bank.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29 January, 2016
Amended: 8 September 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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