Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Larkfield, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Larkfield
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27479, -8.17667
- SMR number
- LE011-066001-
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 at the W edge of the Tullyskeherny plateau, overlooking the NE-SW Bonet River valley. Grass-covered oval area (int. dims 13.4m NE-SW; 8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 0.9m; D 0.3m) NW-E-SW. The bank is reduced to a scarp and the fosse is absent SW-NW where there is a steep natural slope. The booley hut (LE011-066002-) is c. 50m to the NE.
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
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.