Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullylannan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullylannan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98373, -8.06289
- SMR number
- LE027-062----
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 a SE-facing slope overlooking Carrickevy Lough (max. dims c. 450m NE-SW; c. 240m NW-SE), which is c. 100m to the SE. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. dima. 25.5m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a steep-sided and round-topped earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.6m; max. ext. H 1.8m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1m) SE-S, and an external fosse (Wth of base 2.3m generally to 7m at SW; D 0.25m). The original entrance is not identified. There is a local tradition of an underground tunnel, possibly a souterrain, in the same field.
See the attached aerial view taken from 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.