Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Camagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07668, -7.80657
- SMR number
- LE022-007----
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 at the summit of a broad drumlin. It is depicted as a D-shaped area on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims 46.7m NE-SW; 24.6m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) with an external fosse or drain (Wth 1.5m; D 0.4m) NE-SE-SW. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW, but there is no evidence of the enclosure in the coniferous forest N of this feature. Nor can an original entrance be 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
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.