Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Headford, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Headford
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93549, -7.97586
- SMR number
- LE032-104----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in improved but ungrazed pasture, on a gentle E-facing slope. 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 D-shaped area (dims 28m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 3m; H 0.4m) SSE-SW and NW-NNE, but it merges into the slope SW-NW. The perimeter is slightly truncated by a silted E-W drain at N and by a N-S field bank at E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 May, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.