Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsna
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92485, -7.99855
- SMR number
- LE031-088----
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 S-facing slope of a drumlin. It is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 2/8548-9) and some later series (OSAP: 2000; 2005). This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 65m E-W; 62m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 2.9m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-N and by a scarp (max. H 0.4m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified and the perimeter is slightly intruded on by a house and garden at NW.
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: 17 October 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.