Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lavagh (leitrim By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lavagh (leitrim By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93906, -8.00062
- SMR number
- LE031-067----
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 slight SE-facing slope in a low-lying position between drumlins. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W) that slopes down gently to the SE. It is defined by a straight NNW-SSE field bank and hedge at W and an intermittently visible and overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 3.1m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.9m) elsewhere, with traces of an external fosse visible as a band of rushes (Wth 3-10m) E-S. The original entrance is not identified.
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: 16 October 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.