Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilclaremore, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilclaremore
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00948, -7.99803
- SMR number
- LE027-018----
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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 on top of a drumlin. This is a subcircular or oval area (int. dims 42m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by a steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.35m) and external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2m) N-E-S. Elsewhere the bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5-0.7m), and the fosse to a band of lush vegetation (Wth 3-5m) S-W-NE. There is an entrance (Wth 3.8m) and causeway at E. The monument is overlain by a NE-SW field bank and planted with coniferous trees to NW of this feature, while it is covered in grass and rushes to the SW.
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
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.