Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sranagross, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sranagross
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28639, -8.00935
- SMR number
- LE012-060----
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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 in rough pasture on a low NE-SW ridge that is on the floor of the Manorhamilton to Glenfarne valley. This is a circular area (int. diam. c. 23m) defined by a broad bank (at NNE: Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at NNE: Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.4m) from a wide outer bank (at NNE: Wth of base 8.6m; ext. H 1.8m) and a slight outer fosse or field drain (at NNE: Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1.7m; ext. D 0.5m). A relict field bank approaches from the SW, rises over the outer bank and follows its inner edge SSW-N-NNE where it continues on to the NNE. The monument is clipped by a NNE-SSW field bank at the edge of the inner enclosure at E. An entrance was not noted, so it may be at E. The monument is not recorded on any map but is visible on Google Earth (26/03/2012) and other aerial images and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 March 2020
Amended: 8 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.