Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leaffony, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leaffony
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24348, -9.02445
- SMR number
- SL011-085----
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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
Located on a slight elevation of dry ground in generally lowlying, damp pasture, c. 140m SW of the Leaffony River. Raised circular area (diam. 24m NW–SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6m at N, 3.3m at SE; int. H 0.6m at N, 1.1m at SE; ext. H 1.5m at N, 1.4m at SE). The external face of the bank is steep, almost vertical, and incorporates large stones in parts, suggesting that the bank has been modified in the relatively recent past. At N there is a narrow eroded break (c. 0.5m), adjacent to a section of bank which is low and incorporates large stones. This may mark a blocked up entrance feature.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.