Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Leitrim (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitrim (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71832, -8.17009
- SMR number
- RO035-019002-
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
Reputedly a castle of the O'Flanagans (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 51), and situated on a gentle N-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge with rock outcrop. The mound of Leitrim castle (RO035-019001-) is at the NE angle of a rectangular enclosure or bawn (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by grass-covered wall footings and stone spreads (Wth 1m; H 0.15-0.25m) on the N and W sides. At the NW angle are the foundations a small structure (int. dims 3m E-W; 3m N-S) with an entrance (Wth 0.6m) at N, which is probably a corner tower. Within the bawn are the foundations of two houses (RO035-019003-; RO035-019004-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.