Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltycarney, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltycarney
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93616, -8.04247
- SMR number
- LE031-052----
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 a gentle W-facing slope. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4m at SW to 7m at NW; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.25m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.4m) from an outer bank (Wth of base 1.5m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.45m), which might be a modern field bank. The original entrance is not identified, but the rath remains unplanted and overgrown, with a wide fallow zone (Wth c. 20m) in a forest since 2005 (OSAP).
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.
Date of revised upload: 16 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.