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Ringfort - rath

Dromore (Leitrim By.), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dromore, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dromore (Leitrim By.)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.95609, -8.05540
SMR number
LE031-114----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located towards the bottom of a WSW-facing slope in improved pasture. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a subcircular area (dims 28m ENE-WSW; 24m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 4.4m; Wth of top 1.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) NE-S-NW, which is reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.6m; H 0.2m) NW-NE on the N side of an ENE-WSW field bank and hedge across the N-sector. A fosse (at S: Wth of top 6.1m; Wth of base 3.2m; D 0.2m) is visible ESE-SW but is truncated at W by the remains of a NNW-SSE field bank (now removed) and it is not visible NW-NE. The fosse is also absent NE-ESE, where it may have been removed by a N-S field boundary (now removed). There is no identifiable entrance.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 May, 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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