Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leaffony, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leaffony
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23853, -9.01697
- SMR number
- SL017-009001-
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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
Situated on a low rise, in the SW corner of a field, used as a vegetable garden at the time of inspection, adjacent to a modern house. Not marked on the 1837 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1913 edition as a semi-circular hachured area (diam. c. 27m NW–SE; c. 17m NE–SW) curving W–SE, and truncated at W by a field boundary on a NW–SE axis. There is no trace of the enclosure at ground level but the access hole to a drystone-built souterrain (SL017-009002-) remains. This is almost certainly the site of a levelled rath.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.