Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortacorka, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacorka
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- forts
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19693, -8.15493
- SMR number
- LE015-152----
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 top of a drumlin, it remains unplanted in a coniferous forest. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 29m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m) with some scrub, separated by a fosse (Wth of top 3.4-5.5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.2-0.4m) from an outer earth and stone bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.2m generally to 0.8m at N) which is incorporated into a field wall NW-E (max. ext. diam. 44m E-W). The rath (LE015-153---) is c. 20m to 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.