Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clarashinnagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clarashinnagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92708, -7.91729
- SMR number
- LE032-061----
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 crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) is depicted on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’, and it is represented as a hachured feature on the 1907 edition. This is a grass-covered D-shaped earthen platform (dims 41m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by a slight scarp and it is truncated by a N-S field bank at E, but the remains are accommodated by a curve in an E-W field bank at N.
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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.