Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sheebeg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheebeg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01498, -7.96430
- SMR number
- LE028-016----
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 towards the top of the steep W-facing slope of Sheebeg, just above a shelf on that slope. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 35.5m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2m at E to 5m at W; int. H 0.4m at E to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W), but no facing-stones are visible. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.5m) at SE, and the monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW field wall (L 20m) 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.