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Ringfort - rath

Conaghil, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Conaghil, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Conaghil
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.23286, -8.26194
SMR number
LE015-079----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a shoulder of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and crub-covered subcircular area (int. dims 28.5m N-S; 22.2m E-W), which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1m), and an external flat- bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1-0.4m) E-S-N. The bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) at S and the monument is trisected by an E-W field bank and drains meeting a N-S bank and drains at the centre. The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE015-077----) is c. 100m to the WNW and rath (LE015-078----) is c. 95m to the NNW.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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