Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Letterfine, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterfine
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01751, -7.96762
- SMR number
- LE028-013----
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 at the crest of a N-facing slope on the lower NW-facing slope of Sheebeg Hill. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 21m E-W) defined by an intermittently visible earth and stone bank (at SE: Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.45m) N-E-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (at NW: H 0l.7m) elsewhere, and slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 2m). The original entrance is not identified.
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
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.