Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Gortgarrigan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortgarrigan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26137, -8.22754
- SMR number
- LE011-050010-
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 a shelf of fairly level ground on the valley floor of the Bonet River, with a N-S section of the stream c. 200m to the W. Grass-covered shield-shaped mound (dims 38m NE-SW; 17.5m NW-SE; H 0.8-1m SW-N to 1.2-2.2m NE-S) with the apex at NE and a flat top (dims 23.5m NE-SW; 8.5m NW-SE). The summit has a bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.3m) around the perimeter in the S part, which could be spoil from quarrying.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.