Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killarcan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarcan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00002, -8.04322
- SMR number
- LE027-030----
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 on top of a rise on a broad NE-SW ridge. An anomalous feature is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 157-6). This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (dims c. 38m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 4m at W to 10m at E; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m), with an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m) visible at SW. The original entrance is 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
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.