Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Aghnahoo (leitrim By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghnahoo (leitrim By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02830, -7.99994
- SMR number
- LE023-019----
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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 rise with rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape. This is an overgrown oval area (int. dims c. 22m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by a stone spread (at SE: Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.95m) with intermittently visible facing-stones, separated by a fosse (at SE: Wth of base 3.2m; ext. D 0.8m) from an outer stone spread (at SE: Wth 5m; ext. H 0.8m) E-S-N. The source of a N-bound stream is just to the E and occupies the fosse N-E where there is no outer wall. There is a well-defined causewayed entrance (Wth 4.1m) at W, but a second entrance (Wth 2m) through both walls at SSE may be the original entrance.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.