Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Darkvalley, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Darkvalley
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24116, -8.23892
- SMR number
- LE015-029----
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 towards the top of a N-facing slope. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 23.8m E-W; 22.7m N-S) defined by a low, grass-covered scarp (H 0.8m) SW-N-E and by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.4m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) with some bushes elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 3m) is visible as a band of rushes NW-E-SW and the entrance (Wth 3m) is at E. There is a small, grass-covered spoil mound (diam. 7m; max. H 0.6m) at the centre and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank S-W. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.