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Bastioned fort

Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bastioned fort, Manorhamilton, 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
Manorhamilton
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.30526, -8.17210
SMR number
LE011-015----

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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 the highest point of a hill within Manorhamilton, it would have been just NE of the original town. This is a square enclosure (dims 73m N-S; 73m E-W) with corner bastions (dims 17m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a coursed limestone masonry wall (max. Wth 0.9m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 3-6m) built on a plinth over bedrock. There is an 18th-century Church of Ireland church and graveyard in the interior. Archaeological testing (02E0010) inside the SE angle identified a wall that may have been part of a gun-platform (Read 2004b), but archaeological testing (02E1412) on Church Lane just to the W produced no related material (Read 2004a). Further testing (19E0679) immediately outside the W wall and just S of the NW bastion produced no related material (Halpin 2019; excavations.ie 2019: 412)

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
Amended: 28 October 2020

References

Halpin, E. 2019 Archeological testing report, Church Lane, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. Licence No. 19E0679. Unpublished report, AHC.

Read, C. 2004b Manorhamilton. Post-medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 289, No. 1056. Bray. Wordwell.

Read, C. 2004a Church Lane, Manorhamilton. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 289-90. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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