Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Conaghil, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conaghil
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23383, -8.26279
- SMR number
- LE015-078----
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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 rise on the NE-facing slope of a drumlin in a coniferous forest. This is a D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 26.4m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) NE-SE and intermittently by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7; ext. H 1.2m) SE-W, but the monument is truncated by a N-S field bank at W and an E-W field bank at N. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest planted c.1990. Rath (LE015-077----) is c. 80m to the WSW and rath (LE015-079----) is c. 90m to the SSE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.