Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dristernan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dristernan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94372, -7.98976
- SMR number
- LE032-103----
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 improved pasture on a bluff overlooking a slight fold to the W and Headford Lough c. 350m to the SE in a gently undulating landscape. 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 circular area (diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 7m; Wth of top 1.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.2m) NNW-NE merging into the slope NE-SE. It is defined by a steep, tree-lined scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 1.3m) down to a NNW-SSE road S-W-NNW. The perimeter at S is incorporated into an ENE-WSW field bank with a gateway at S, perhaps on the location of the original entrance. There is no visible fosse.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 May, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.