Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killaleen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaleen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.22755, -8.27117
- SMR number
- LE015-074----
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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
Located on a slight rise on the flood-plain of the Bonet River, with a N-S section of the stream c. 250m from the E and an E-W section c. 200m to the S. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 24.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1m) SE-W-NE, and slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 4m). Two outer bands of thin vegetation on slight rises (Wth of each c. 5m) with an intervening band of rushes (Wth 3-4.5m) are the only indications of the two outer enclosing elements (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 348-7) of a trivallate rath. The original entrance is not identified.
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
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.