Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killaneen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaneen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04021, -7.83373
- SMR number
- LE025-065----
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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
This was described in 1991 as a rath consisting of a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 40m N-S; 39m E-W; H 0.3-0.9m) defined by slight traces of an earthen bank (max. int. H 0.1m), a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5.5m at N and S to 7-9m at E and W; Wth of base 2.5m at N to 5m at W; D 0.3-1m), and an overgrown external bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) with an outer fosse (Wth of top 7.3m; Wth of base 3.4m; D 1m). The outer bank and fosse survived only NE-ESE, the monument being curtailed elsewhere by field banks. There was an entrance (Wth 2.7m) at SE. The monument appears to have been completely removed (Bing 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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 6 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.