Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Canbeg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canbeg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.17961, -8.03788
- SMR number
- LE018-015----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the severe SE-facing slope of a drumlin c. 100m W of a NNE-SSW section of the River Shannon. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 22m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by the overgrown foundations of a stone wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m), but the original entrance is not identified. The monument is curtailed by field walls at N and 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
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.