Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cully, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cully
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05662, -7.70065
- SMR number
- LE025-059----
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 at the crest of the N-facing slope of a drumlin, which forms a peninsula (max. dims c. 570m N-S; c. 300m E-W) jutting S into Garadice Lough. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 33.5m N-S; 27m E-W; int. dims 31.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 1.3-2.6m) with trees and an external fosse (Wth of top 2.5-3.5m; Wth of base 0.8m; D 0.8m). It has a modernised entrance with gate pillars at SW, which is approached by a public path and the monument has been landscaped.
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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.