Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Headford, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Headford
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93875, -7.98252
- SMR number
- LE032-029----
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
Located at the S end of a slight NE-SW ridge in a low-lying position c. 70m from the S shore of Headford Lough. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 32.6m NW-SE; 32.3m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m at SW to 1.7m at NW), which has a hedge and is incorporated into a field bank SE-W-NW. The perimeter is formed by traces of a fosse (Wth of top 5m; max. D 0.3m) across the ridge NE-SE but it cannot be distinguished NW-NE. The scarp is separated by a berm (at SW: Wth 3m) from a scrub-covered outer bank (at SW: Wth of base 5m; max. int. H 0.6m; max. ext. H 0.6m) SE-W-NW. 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 upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 5 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th/18th centuryunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.