Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creevy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04844, -7.84451
- SMR number
- LE025-028----
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
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin in a coniferous forest. This is an oval area (dims 31m E-W; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8m; max. H 1.2m) with internal stone facing which survives NW-NE. The bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7-1m) elsewhere and there is an external fosse (Wth of top 5-6.4m; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.2m S-W to 0.5-1m W-N). The original entrance is not identified and the interior was planted in young coniferous trees c. 1988. The rath (LE025-027---) is c. 50m to the N.
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 revised upload: 26 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.