Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltoghert, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoghert
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97641, -8.04270
- SMR number
- LE027-078----
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 in a low-lying landscape. Visible as a circular feature bisected by a N-S field bank on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 157-6). This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 25m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a straight field drain at E and a fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.25m) or a band of lush vegetation (Wth 3m) S-W-N. It is not visible E of the field bank, and an original entrance is not identified, but it is probably a rath. Rath (LE027-141----) is c. 20m to the NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.