Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Stonepark, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stonepark
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23830, -8.31412
- SMR number
- LE014-002----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a knoll at the base of a W-facing slope. Scrub-covered subcircular area (int. dims 17.8m N-S; 16.3m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) E-S with intermittently visible facing-stones. Elsewhere the perimeter is reduced to a stony scarp (H 1m at W, 1.3m at N and 1.6m at S). 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.