Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Beihy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beihy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85277, -7.79967
- SMR number
- LE036-026----
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
Towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge at its N end. This is depicted as a small enclosure only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map and it is visible on aerial photographs from the 1970s (GSIAP: N 645-6) and later. This is an overgrown subcircular area (ext. dims 16m E-W; 14m N-S) defined by an earthen the bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1m) with evidence of external stone-facing. It is probably a tree-ring.
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: 7 January 2020
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.