Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Costrea, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Costrea
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01990, -7.81354
- SMR number
- LE025-101----
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 slight rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape. This is a raised grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 50m NNE-SSW; H 2-2.3m) with a hedge on the perimeter which is defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5-4m; ext. D 0.5m at S to 1.4m at N) SE-W-NE and skirted by a roadway NE-SE. The original entrance was not identified.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.