Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawnyhoosy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnyhoosy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24811, -8.21375
- SMR number
- LE015-045----
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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 small N-S ridge on the floor of the Bonet River valley with the headwaters of a small NE-SW stream c. 20m to the W. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 18.4m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H up to 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m at SW to 1.3m at NE) with an external fosse (Wth 1.5-4m) visible as a band of rush growth (Wth 1.5-4m). There is an entrance ramp (Wth 2.4m) at NE. Rath (LE011-089----) is c. 70m to the WNW.
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
- Megalithic structureunder 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.