Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumkeelan More, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumkeelan More
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02327, -8.03312
- SMR number
- LE023-013----
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 drumlin. This monument is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 211-10). It is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 29.3m E-W; 26.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.95m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.6m), which is reduced to a scarp at E and incorporated into a field bank S-W-N. There is an external fosse (at S: Wth of base 1.9m; D 0.2m) N-E-S. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.