Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisgruddy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgruddy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07298, -7.74486
- SMR number
- LE025-017----
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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 in reclaimed pasture on the summit of a N-S drumlin ridge. It not marked as an antiquity on any OS 6-inch map but is suggested by a westward curve in a N-S field bank on the 1944 revised edition. It is also visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 14/13). This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims 35m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2m). The monument was truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S, which has now been removed. A fosse or entrance cannot be detected, but this was undoubtedly a rath.
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
- 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.