Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the S-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking Carrickevy Lough (max. dims c. 450m NE-SW; c. 240m NW-SE), which is c. 190m to the S. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 47m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.2m) with some bushes NE-S-SW which is reduced to a scarp (H c. 1m) N of the NE-SW field bank which bisects the monument. An outer fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.35m) survives only SE of the field bank, but the original entrance is not identified. Archaeological testing (04E0303) c. 30m to the W at the closest point produced no related material (Read 2006), and a fallow area (Wth c. 20m) is preserved around the monument SW-W-NE.

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

Read, C. 2006 Tullylannan, Leitrim: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 303, No. 1120. Dublin, Wordwell