Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortgarrigan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortgarrigan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26432, -8.22231
- SMR number
- LE011-052----
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 gentle rise on the floor of the Bonet river valley with a meandering E-W section of the stream c. 100m to the N. This is an overgrown subcircular area (int. dims 32m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) covered in spoil, which is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 7m; int. H 0.3m; max. ext. H 2.8m at NNW) with intermittently visible outer facing-stones. There are traces of an outer grass-covered stone spread 11m from the enclosing element SSE-W, but an 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.