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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10039, -8.75098
- SMR number
- SL031-011----
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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 the top of a ridge. A circular area (38.4m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m). An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.5m) is evident W-NNW. The interior is level and crossed by cultivation ridges. The scarp has been levelled NNE-ENE to allow access to the interior. Indicated as a complete embanked area (diam. c. 30m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as open to NNE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.