Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annagh Upper, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh Upper
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18672, -8.02738
- SMR number
- LE018-019----
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 towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 180m from loops on an E-W section of the River Shannon. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) with some bushes and a slight external fosse (Wth of base 2-2.5m) visible as a band of rushes. There is an entrance, visible as a slight dip in the perimeter, at SE. The monument is bisected by an old N-S field drain, and slightly truncated by an E-W field 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.