TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Linear earthwork

Unknown, County Leitrim, Ireland

The record

Townland
Unknown
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
SMR number
LE035-036----

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

According to Kane (1916, 546) tradition has it that part of a "frontier" of the Black Pig’s Dyke ran between Lough Bofin on the River Shannon and Lough Rinn, but this has never been substantiated.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 6 January 2020

Kane, W. F. de Vismes 1916 Additional researches on the Black Pig's Dyke. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 33, No. 191, 539-63.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
See your own family's places on a living map