Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cleen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.21974, -8.28376
- SMR number
- LE015-072----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a local prominence on the S bank of an E-W section of the Bonet River. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims 29m ESE-WNW; 18m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp with a few bushes, which is best preserved (H 1m) E-S. A short section of bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) survives ESE-SE and there are traces of an external fosse (Wth of top 7.5m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-W. An original entrance is not identified. The monument is truncated by the river at N and a defunct railway line from Sligo and Dromahaire to Manorhamilton and Enniskillen is just to the S.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.