Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcoosy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoosy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24280, -8.25039
- SMR number
- LE015-022----
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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
Situated at the summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge, which is overlooking a NE-SW section of the Bonet River, c. 200m to the SE. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 31m NE-SW; 27.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at NE to 1.1m at NW) with some trees on the perimeter SE-W. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at SSE which might be original, although there is no visible fosse, and the monument is circumscribed by field banks S-W-N. Rath (LE015-023----) is c. 80m to the 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.