Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumbranned, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbranned
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00003, -8.00322
- SMR number
- LE027-055----
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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 a NW-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims. 29m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.45m; int. H 0.35-0.45m; ext. H 1.6-2.15m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m) at NE, and an outer fosse (Wth 4m; ext. D 1.4m) which has been destroyed at NE by a trackway and at SW by a NW-SE field bank. There are traces of an outer bank surviving at SE (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) and NW. A hollow (L 11m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.85m) in the NW quadrant may be a collapsed souterrain, although no stones are visible.
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
- Souterrainunder 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.