Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilnagross, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnagross
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99122, -7.95598
- SMR number
- LE028-071----
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 S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular platform (diam. c. 26m N-S; c. 26m E-W; H 0.3m) defined by a wet, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.15m; D 0.25m) and an external earthen bank (Wth 4.1m; H 0.35m), with a second external rush-filled fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified (max. ext. diam. c. 44m). It is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and hedge and another field bank runs SW from this bank.
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.