Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annaghmaconway, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghmaconway
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sheean Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheean Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.94383, -7.80048
- SMR number
- LE033-020----
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 on a rise at the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. It is depicted as a circular enclosure with trees on the perimeter on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as ‘Sheean Fort’ – the Fairies Fort, and it is depicted as a D-shaped hachured feature with the same name but truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank at N on the 1945 revision. This is a slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 24m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2m) and slightly truncated by the field bank at N. It is planted with coniferous trees, but it was probably a rath.
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: 9 December, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.