Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20675, -8.27609
- SMR number
- LE015-115----
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
Located on a shelf on the N-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge and just N of a slight col between two knolls of that ridge. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 25.7m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1m) NE-E which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-1m) elsewhere with a hedge on the perimeter, and an external band of rushes (Wth 1.5-2m). The entrance (Wth 4m) is at E. It has been removed since 2005 and is now occupied by farm sheds (Bing 2013).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.