Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghameeny, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghameeny
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95616, -8.06608
- SMR number
- LE031-008----
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. It is represented only on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped hachured feature truncated by a roadway at E. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped platform (dims 29m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.45m at NW to 0.8m at SE) SE-W-NW, and an outer berm (Wth 2-3m) S-SW which may be the remains of an external fosse. ANW-SE road truncates the monument at NE and there is no evidence of it NE of the road.
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: 15 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 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.