Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghatawny Lower, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghatawny Lower
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04167, -7.78340
- SMR number
- LE025-076----
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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 a low-lying position on the W bank of a N-S stream. It is only marked on the revised 1944 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 27m N-S; 25m E-W; int. diam. 23.27m E-W; 22.2m N-S) defined by an intermittently visible earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1m) or scarp and an external band of rushes (Wth 2m). The original entrance is not identified, although it could be at NE (Wth 4.3m) or SE (Wth 3.6m). It is truncated slightly by a N-S field bank at E, and it was at one time used as a golfing green.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 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.