Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghlough, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghlough
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97748, -7.62157
- SMR number
- LE030-035----
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
Situated on the summit of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 34.8m N-S; 32.2m E-W) defined by a steep-sided, flat-topped, overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 5.5-7.2m; int. H 0.5m at W to 1.1m at N; ext. H 2.2m at N to 3.6m at W) with an external fosse (Wth of top 5-7m; Wth of base 1.5-4m; ext. D 0.2m at E to 1.2m at W (upslope)). There is an entrance (Wth of base 2m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.6m) at E (max. ext. diam. 60.5m N-S).
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 upload: 14 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.