Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Gortletteragh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortletteragh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88856, -7.82155
- SMR number
- LE036-015----
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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
Situated on a level landscape with a canalised SE-NW section of a stream c. 30m to the N. An enclosure described as a ‘Danish Fort’ is depicted on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 27), but it is not depicted on any later maps. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.