Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creenagh (leitrim By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creenagh (leitrim By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04251, -8.01571
- SMR number
- LE023-011----
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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 in pasture on top of a rise. It is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but is visible clearly as a bivallate circular feature (int. diam. c. 50m; ext. diam. c. 80m N-S) defined by a wide inner and narrow outer fosse features on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 211-10). No feature was visible at ground level in pasture in 1991, and the area remains unplanted in a forest (Bing 2013).
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
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