Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Jamestown, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jamestown
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91868, -8.03903
- SMR number
- LE031-094----
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 the NW bank of a SW-NE section of the River Shannon with the stream immediately adjacent. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. c. 42m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.5m at N to 0.9m at SW; ext. H 2.2m at N to 2.6m at SW), and an external fosse (at N: Wth of base 3.5m; ext. D 2m) SW-N-ENE. The entrance and causeway (Wth of top 3m) are at NNE.
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 2019
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.