Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghacashel, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghacashel
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07614, -7.93457
- SMR number
- LE021-004----
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 knoll of rock outcrop towards the bottom of an E and SE-facing slope of Slieve Anierin. This is a grass and scrub-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 38.5m NE-SW; 22.2m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m) on top of a cliff (H 2m) at SE, and elsewhere by an overgrown earthen bank, best preserved at N (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m), accompanied by an external fosse (Wth of top 7.2m; Wth of base 3-3.5m; max. D 1.4m at N) WSW-N-NE. The entrance (Wth 1.4m) is at W.
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Rock shelterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Sweathouse2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.