Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Farnaght, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farnaght
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87216, -7.82559
- SMR number
- LE036-021002-
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
Situated on a rise in a low-lying, undulating landscape. The graveyard (LE036-021001-) is with a subcircular enclosure (int. dims 85m N-S; 69m E-W) defined by a masonry wall NW-SE and by an earthen bank topped with a collapsed stone wall elsewhere. It has headstones dating from the 18th century. Archaeological supervision (00E0867) of the replacement of the perimeter with a masonry wall NE-SE demonstrated that it was a slight earth and stone bank and the stones had been thrown up from inside. However, it produced no dateable material (Meenan 2001, 2002).
Compiled by Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 October 2010
Amended: 7 January 2020
References
Meenan, R. 2001 Archaeological Supervision at Farnaght, Co. Leitrim. August – December, 2000. Licence No. 00E0867. Unpublished report, Author
Meenan, R. 2002 Farnaght: Graveyard. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 187-8, No. 564. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.