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Drumharkan Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumharkan Glebe
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93797, -7.80139
- SMR number
- LE033-021----
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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 top of a drumlin. This is a scrub-covered D-shaped mound (dims of base 11.2m N-S; 9.4m E-W; dims of top 9.9m E-W; 8.9m N-S; H 0.6-0.7m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth of top 4-4.7m; ext. D 0.3-0.4m) NW-E-SW. Both the mound and fosse are truncated by a N-S field bank at W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.