Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghameelta, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghameelta
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24523, -8.24341
- SMR number
- LE015-025----
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 an E-facing slope in mixed woodland. This is an overgrown subcircular or D-shaped area (int. dims 25.8m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1.1-1.6m) which is intermittently reduced to a scarp. There is no visible fosse and an entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SW is probably not original. Rath (LE015-026----) is c. 110m to the SSW.
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 - 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.