Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killarcan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarcan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99608, -8.04115
- SMR number
- LE027-037----
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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
In a low-lying position in an undulating landscape and c. 20m N of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 37.5m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.35m) separated by an overgrown flat-bottomed fosse (at NW: Wth of base 3.1m) from an outer bank (at NW: Wth 5-6m; int. and ext. H 0.15m). These features survive SW-NW only, the inner feature being reduced to an overgrown scarp to E of a N-S borderless laneway.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.