Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Indicated — Leitrim (ballintober South By.),lisheenloughtin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
Indicated — Leitrim (ballintober South By.),lisheenloughtin
Photo: Credit not shown in the picture search · Open the original picture · Rights wording not checked; contact us if this picture should be removed · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Marked as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 20m N-S) on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the SSW-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32m WNW-ESE; c. 20m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) at ESE which is reduced to a slight scarp ESE-S-WNW. The monument is truncated by a WNW-ESE field wall and townland boundary with Leitrim at N, and no feature is visible N of this wall. Rath (RO035-018----) is c. 180m to the E and rath (RO035-020----) is c. 210m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.