Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garadice (carrigallen By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garadice (carrigallen By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06740, -7.73650
- SMR number
- LE025-116----
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
Located in a low-lying position surrounded by drumlins. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims 43m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.7m) S-W-N which is truncated at E by a N-S roadway. An old grass-covered quarry (diam. 17m; D 0.5m), from which the spoil has been removed is excavated in the surviving portion. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance and there is no trace of the monument on the E side of the road, but it was undoubtedly a rath.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.