Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Larkfield, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Larkfield
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27793, -8.18206
- SMR number
- LE011-032----
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 the W-facing slope of a hill in the Bonet river valley and towards the bottom of the steep NW-facing slope of Tullyskeherny. Indicated as a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) described as a 'Fort' on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as an arc of a bank (C c. 35m) SW-N-NE on the NW side of a road on the 1945 ed. No feature is visible at ground level and the area is occupied by a house and garden. Archaeological testing (19E0624) on what would probably be its perimeter at N produced no related material (Hull 2019; excavations.ie 2019: 337).
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/revision: 13 December 2011
Amended: 28 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.