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Ringfort - unclassified

Breandrum (King), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Breandrum (King), County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Breandrum (King)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.98410, -7.90936
SMR number
LE028-060----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating reclaimed pasture. It is depicted as a triangular field (dims c. 20m x c. 20m) described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a length of earthen bank (C c. 23m N-S) on the 1911 edition. A small overgrown triangular area (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 10m E-W) survives and may be the E remnant of a ringfort.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 April, 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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