Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortanure North, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanure North
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98020, -7.94361
- SMR number
- LE028-078----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; visible on both Digital Globe aerial imagery, and on Google Earth aerial imagery dated 5-5-2020 as a roughly circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 24m) defined by the cropmark of a broad (Wth c. 5m) fosse. Located in rough grazing just N of a small forestry plantation.
See attached image: LE028-078----_01 Snip of Google Earth aerial imagery dated 5-5-2020
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 May 2023
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.