Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Branra, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Branra
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03780, -7.88523
- SMR number
- LE024-028----
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 a rise in an undulating low-lying landscape with rock outcrop. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular area (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by an overgrown earth and stone spread (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.45m) which has no visible facing-stones and has been partially quarried at NE. The monument is bisected by a N-S field bank and is overgrown E of this feature, but is in pasture to the W of it. 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
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.