Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigeen (mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (mohill By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92269, -7.93030
- SMR number
- LE032-058----
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 in a col on the crest of a NW-SE drumlin ridge with summits to the NW and SE, and at the S-facing crest of the ridge overlooking Lough Erril, which is c. 190m distant. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped earthen platform (dims 20.7m NW-SE; 17.5m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) SE-W-NW which is truncated by a WNW-ESE drain and road bank at NE. There is no visible fosse and 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: 6 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.