Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowcrin, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcrin
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19822, -8.31084
- SMR number
- LE014-042----
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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 on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. This is a grass-covered oval platform (dims 35m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at E, 1.6m at W, 1.8m at S) and hedge with an earthen bank (Wth 7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.8m) surviving NW-ENE. There are entrances at WNW (Wth 3.2m) and E (2.2m) and the monument is bisected by a N-S field bank. Archaeological testing (03E1431) c. 100m to the ESE produced no related material (Read 2006).
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
Read, C. 2006 Carrowcrin: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 300, No. 1102. Bray, Wordwell
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