Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornaguillagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornaguillagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18039, -8.01201
- SMR number
- LE018-021----
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 top of a broad drumlin. It is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 340 / H 204). This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by a rush-filled fosse (Wth of top 5-6m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.3-0.7m) with ill-defined edges. The monument is within a small rectangular field and is overlain W of centre by a NNW-SSE field wall. The original entrance is not identified.
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
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.