Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fargrim, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fargrim
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93635, -7.99490
- SMR number
- LE032-022----
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 towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a broad E-W drumlin ridge. This is a grass, rush and reed-covered subcircular platform (dims 18.8m E-W; 16.7m N-S) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m; at W: Wth 2.65m; H 0.8m), with slight traces of a bank (Wth of base 3.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) at E. There is no visible fosse, and the only entrance is a modern one at S. The monument is slightly truncated by an E-W field bank at S. Rath (LE032-023----) is c. 100m to the SE.
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 upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 5 December 2019
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.