Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnacorkoge, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacorkoge
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24085, -8.21629
- SMR number
- LE015-041----
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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 on a shoulder of a NW-SE ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 30m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) S-W-NE and an external fosse (Wth 3m), which is visible as lush growth NW-NE. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at SSW. The monument is truncated slightly (L c. 20m) by a NE-SW field bank and drain at SE, and overlain by a NW-SE field bank and drain towards the perimeter at SW.
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 - cashelunder 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.