Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickmurray, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmurray
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.22132, -8.22389
- SMR number
- LE015-095----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 small area of rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape, with a small E-W stream c. 25m to the N. This is an overgrown D-shaped area (ext. dims c. 32m E-W; c. 25m N-S) backing on to a cliff (H c. 6m) at N, which was probably created by an E-W roadway, and defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) E-S-W. There is no visible fosse and 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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.