Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greagh (leitrim By., Carrick-On-Shannon Ed), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greagh (leitrim By., Carrick-On-Shannon Ed)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94347, -8.04210
- SMR number
- LE031-048----
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 between drumlins, with a small canalised SSE-NNW stream c. 60m to the E. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an intermittently visible earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.35m) and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth of base 1.6m), which is possibly original although there is no causeway, at NE. The rath remains unplanted but overgrown within a forest since 1995 at least (OSAP). The rath (LE031-049----) is c. 80m to the E, on the other side of the stream.
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 2018
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.