Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ross (Drumahaire By., Mahanagh ED), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross (Drumahaire By., Mahanagh ED)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20683, -8.03849
- SMR number
- LE016-012----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small drumlin in the valley of the N-S Owennayle River with a NE-SW section of the stream c. 110m to the SE. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (dims 33m N-S; 28.5m E-W; int. dims 31.2m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7-0.9m) with some bushed and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3-5m; D 0.3-0.5m). The bank is lowest E-SSE where the entrance may have been, and the monument is bisected by an E-W field wall.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.