Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Commons, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01997, -7.84191
- SMR number
- LE025-089----
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 on a shelf of rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape with a higher shelf c. 20m to the N and a lower basin c. 20m to the S. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 22m NE-SW; 19.4m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-4.4m; H 0.3m) with the intermittently visible facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1-1.2m). The entrance (Wth 3.8m) is at ESE. Archaeological testing (06E1191) by Martin A. Timoney c. 70m to the E at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie: 2006:1216).
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
Amended: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.