TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Earthwork

Lisgillock Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Lisgillock Glebe, 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
Lisgillock Glebe
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.98013, -7.77195
SMR number
LE029-018----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Located in a coniferous forest towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a small N-S drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) described as a 'fort' on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and as a D-shaped hachured feature (diam. c. 20m) abutting the N side of an E-W field bank on the 1911 edition. A slight rise (diam. c. 11m E-W; H c. 0.5m) is visible in the hillslope on the N side of a field bank, but the exact nature or this monument is not clear.

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/revision: 15 December 2011

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Earthwork in Leitrim All County Leitrim records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map