Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farnaght, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farnaght
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87159, -7.82596
- SMR number
- LE036-021005-
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 low-lying, undulating landscape. It is not depicted on an eighteenth century estate map (Wogan 1850, 26) but is represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped, scrub-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 1.8-2.2m) WNW-NE and SE-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (at W: Wth 1m; H 1.8m; at E: Wth 2.5m; H 1.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or recognisable original entrance. The straight side is at E where the perimeter is covered by the cairn around the tower house (LE036-021003-). The graveyard (LE0356-021002-) is just to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January 2020
References
Wogan, W. 1750 A Book of Maps of the Estates belonging to Nathaniel Clements Esqr. In the Parishes of Mohill & Cloone, in the County of Leitrim. Unpublished folio of manuscript maps in the National Library of Ireland (14 A 16)
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.