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
- 53.96954, -8.02710
- SMR number
- LE027-144----
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 with an E-W section of a NE-SW stream immediately to the S. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 24m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a scarp (at NW: Wth 1.7m; H 0.25m) SW-W-NE, which is best preserved (at WSW: Wth 2m; H 0.4m) and accompanied by a fosse (at WSW: Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.2m) and traces of an outer bank (at WSW: Wth of base 9.3m; Wth of top 2.3m; ext. H 1m) SW-W. The perimeter is truncated by a N-S field bank and hedge at E and by the stream at S. There is no evidence of an original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 May, 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.