Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caldragh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caldragh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97531, -8.07751
- SMR number
- LE027-069----
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
Situated on a low-lying landscape c. 60m from the E bank of a N-S section of the River Shannon at a point where it turns W. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 33.5m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by a round-topped and overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.65m) N-S-W and by a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. A slight external fosse (Wth 1.9-2.4m; D 0.25m) is intermittently visible. There is an entrance (Wth 2.5m) and causeway at S.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Canalunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.