Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greaghnafarna (drumahaire By., Killanummery Ed), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greaghnafarna (drumahaire By., Killanummery Ed)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18096, -8.31310
- SMR number
- LE014A003----
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 the summit of Blast Hill. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 19.3m NW-SE; 17.4m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) which is separated by a rush-growing fosse (Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.2-0.7m) from an outer grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 6.8-8.5m; ext. H 1.5-1.6m). There is no identifiable original entrance. The monument is circumscribed by field walls which partly truncate the outer bank at NW, and it has a maximum external diam. of 49m.
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.
See the attached aerial view
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.