Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leitrim North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitrim North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisuicrumain
- Coordinates
- 54.10485, -8.74538
- SMR number
- SL031-009001-
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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
In pasture, on top of a ridge. A slightly raised roughly circular area (c. 27.5m N-S; c. 29.5m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1m) SSW- ESE and by a scarp elsewhere. An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; D 1m) with a counterscarp bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.6m) is evident all round except at SE, where the bank was probably levelled and the fosse infilled to provide access to the interior for farm machinery. The interior is planted with coniferous trees. There is a souterrain (SL031-009002-) in the NW quadrant.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.