Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortnasillagh East, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnasillagh East
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19560, -8.08814
- SMR number
- LE016-018----
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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 an E-W drumlin ridge with E-W valleys and streams c. 150m to the N and c. 150m to the S. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped area (dims 29m E-W; 14m N-S) defined by a slight bank (Wth 3m; H 0.1-0.3m) at W and E and by a scarp (H 0.6m) at N. There are slight indications of an external fosse (D 0.1m) accompanying the bank and scarp, but the entrance is not identified and the monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW road bank at S.
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
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.