Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sweetwood Upper, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sweetwood Upper
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19788, -8.21544
- SMR number
- LE015-142----
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 at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular platform (int. dims 22.5m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.5-4m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.5m at W to 1.3m at N). There is no visible fosse or entrance and the monument is slightly truncated by an old NW-SE laneway at E.
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
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.