Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boleyboy, County Leitrim, Ireland
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----
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 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
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.