Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leeg, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leeg
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92943, -6.65879
- SMR number
- MO034-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a shelf or rise just off the crest of the W-facing slope of a small drumlin. This is a subrectangular or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.5m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) sloping down to the SW defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) and hedge E-S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m at NW to 2m at SW) SW-N-NE. There is a sharp angle in the perimeter at S, and there is no visible fosse. There are gaps at SSW, WSW and N, but none is identified as an original entrance.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 27 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.