Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cleighran, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleighran
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19730, -8.32739
- SMR number
- LE014-035----
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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
Located towards the bottom of a gentle W-facing slope with a small SW-NE stream c. 130m to the NW. This is an overgrown circular platform (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m at S to 1.2-1.4m at N) surmounted by a stone spread (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.2-0.8m), sometimes with a berm (Wth up to 2.7m) between the outer edge of the spread and the top of the scarp. There are entrance gaps at NNE (Wth 2.2m) and at E (Wth 2.2m). Cashel (LE014-034----) is c. 160m to the W.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.