Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Keenaghan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keenaghan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95251, -8.06260
- SMR number
- LE031-011----
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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 a rise in a fairly low-lying area. It is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is suggested by a curving field bank E-SW on the 1945 revision, and the rest of the perimeter is visible on aerial photographs (OS: 4/ 6746-7) and some later series. This is a grass and rush-covered circular platform (diam. 33m E-W; 31m N-S; H 0.8m) defined by a wet shallow fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.25m). An original entrance is not detected but the platform is surrounded by a field banks E-S-W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.