Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Socks, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Socks
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23859, -8.24449
- SMR number
- LE015-030----
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 at the summit of an E-W ridge in the Bonet River valley. This is an oval area overgrown area (dims 31.7m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a scarp at N and S (H 0.8m) and by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth of spread 2m; H 0.3m) at W. There is an overgrown earthen mound (dims c. 15m N-S; 8m E-W; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.2m), probably spoil, on the perimeter at E. There is no visible fosse or an identifiable original entrance but the monument is a rath which may have been foreshortened on the E side.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.