Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dernasmallan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dernasmallan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08454, -7.84434
- SMR number
- LE022-004----
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
Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a grass and scrub-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 28m N-S; 17.5m E-W) curtailed by field banks at N and E but defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 8.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (at W: Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 3.5m; D 1-1.2m) S-NW. The original entrance is not identified and the perimeter is circumscribed by a field bank S-NW.
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
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.