Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcoosy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoosy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24329, -8.26761
- SMR number
- LE015-010----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a small knoll. It is indicated as a small D-shaped enclosure truncated by field banks at NW and NE on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a 'fort'. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped area (dims 22m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.8m at SE) SE-W-NW. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at N and a NW-SE field bank at E.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.