Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Donagh Beg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donagh Beg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.30282, -8.15599
- SMR number
- LE011-023----
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 top of a drumlin on the floor of the Bonet River valley with a N-S section of the Owenmore river c. 300m top the W. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims. 34m E-W; 30.5m N-S) cut by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at W and surviving undisturbed to W of this feature where it is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.25m) and outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3m) S-N. The perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m) and flat bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.2m) NNW-E-SSW but the original entrance is not identified.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.