Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Callowhill, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callowhill
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05692, -7.83925
- SMR number
- LE025-025----
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
Located towards the S end of a low N-S ridge. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 21m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a fosse (at W: Wth of top 2m; D 0.4m; at N: Wth of top 6m; D 0.4m) W-NE and a scarp (Wth 2.3m; H 0.4m) NE-SE. The platform is truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S. The original entrance is not identified. It remains unplanted in a forest (Bing c. 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
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 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.