Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltycarney, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltycarney
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93996, -8.05358
- SMR number
- LE031-043----
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 in a low-lying position among drumlins, with a small canalised NE-SW stream c. 50m to the NW. No archaeological feature is recorded on any map at this location but a D-shaped area is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 152-3) and some later series (OSAP: 2012). This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 30m) defined by a band of rushes and reeds (Wth 4m). The original entrance is not identified but the perimeter is truncated slightly by a NW-SE field bank and drain at SW.
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
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.