Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortermone (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortermone (drumahaire By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 54.24832, -8.17693
- SMR number
- LE011-106001-
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
Marked only on the 1943 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as the south-western of two attached enclosures that are described as in gothic lettering as 'Cashel'. It is situated on rock outcrop in a deep NE-SW valley at the S edge of the Tullyskeherny plateau, and it is unplanted but overgrown with blackthorn in a coniferous forest. This is an overgrown subcircular area (dims c. 25m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall (Wth 1m; H up to 1m) with a subcircular annexe (int. dim. c. 12m) defined by a stone wall attached 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.