Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 54.25330, -8.22661
- SMR number
- LE011-081----
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
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 356-7), it is situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a steep-sided drumlin on the floor of the Bonet River valley. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (diam. 18m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; H 0.45m) N-E and S-W. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The monument is truncated by NE-SW field banks W-N and E-S. Rath (LE011-080----) is c. 120m to the WSW and rath (LE011-082----) is c. 60m 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
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.