Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lugmeeltan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lugmeeltan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18366, -8.19035
- SMR number
- LE017-004001-
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 on a N-facing slope with a small SSW-NNE stream immediately to the W. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped area (dims 33m N-S; 24m E-W; int. dims 28m N-S; 23.3m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 1-1.6m) and an external rounded fosse (Wth of top 5m at N to 9m at S; D 0.8m), with a scarp (H 4m) down to the stream on the straight W side. There is an entrance (Wth c. 4m), probably not original, at NE. A rectangular house site (int. dims 7m N-S; 2.8m E-W) at the centre is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1m; H 0.3m) with a doorway (Wth 1m) in the E 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.