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Ring-ditch

Mullaghnameely, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Mullaghnameely, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mullaghnameely
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.02163, -7.83412
SMR number
LE025-119----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a S and W-facing slope with a ravine (Wth c. 50m; D c. 5m) c. 10m to the W separating it from an area with three passage tombs and a portal tomb. Archaeological monitoring (05E1402) revealed an arc (L 10.5m) of a flat-bottomed trench (Wth of top 0.4-0.7m; D 0.25-0.35m) curving SE-SW which contained three layers of silty clay, the bottommost of which contained charcoal inclusions and some struck flints. It was completely excavated (int. diam. 12m E-W; 11m N-S) under the same licence and is probably the remains of a barrow. (Read 2006, 2008; 2009)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 December 2020

References

Read, C. 2006 Archaeological monitoring at Mullaghnameely Townland, Fenagh, Co. Leitrim. Licence No: 05E1402. Unpublished report, North West Archaeological Services

Read, C. 2008 Mullaghnameely. Prehistoric ditched enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 235-6, No. 945. Dublin, Wordwell

Read, C. 2009 Mullaghnameely. Ring-ditch/barrow. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 315-6, No. 1217. Dublin, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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