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Ringfort - rath

Drumergoole, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drumergoole, 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
Drumergoole
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.99828, -7.59559
SMR number
LE030-024----

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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

Located In deciduous woodland on an E-facing slope towards the S end of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 31.6m E-W; 29.2m N-S) planted with deciduous trees, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6.8-10m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 2.5-2.6m) and an external flat bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.6-9m; Wth of base 2.2-2.8m; ext. D 0.6m) surviving in its original form E-SW. The bank and fosse are truncated by a N-S field bank at W, reducing the perimeter here to a scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 1.3m), and the fosse was re-dug (at N: Wth of top 9.3m; Wth of base 3.8m; ext. D 2m) and the spoil added to the bank (at N: Wth of base 12.6m; int. H 2m; ext. H 3.8m) NW-E before the trees were planted (max. ext. dims 59m N-S; 47m E-W). The entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.5m) are at E. The re-digging of the fosse might date from the 1940s when it was used as a military camp (SMR file).

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.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 14 October 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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