Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonboygher, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonboygher
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02922, -7.69030
- SMR number
- LE026-024----
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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 rise in a col between drumlins that rise to the NW and SE. This is an overgrown circular platform (diam. 43m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW; H 0.7-1.3m) surrounded by a slight fosse (Wth of top 5.9m at NW; Wth of base 2-4m), which is best preserved at NW (D 0.4m). The original entrance is not identified. The monument was circumscribed by a field bank SE-SW in 1991, which is now removed (Bing 2013). The rath (LE026-023----) is c. 170m to the NNW, down the NE slope of the col.
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 revised upload: 1 March 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.