Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Leabeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leabeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68098, -8.43547
- SMR number
- RO034-047----
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
Marked as a rectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 45m E-W; c. 25m N-S) which is truncated at N by an E-W section of the River Suck on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the S bank of the river. This is a rectangular area (dims 50m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by the remains of moats (Wth 2.4m) marked by bands of reeds on the E and S sides, and by the river at N, but the perimeter cannot be traced at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.