Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballygilgan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygilgan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.35639, -8.56769
- SMR number
- SL008-010----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in level wet pasture surrounded by mature coniferous forestry. Depicted as a roughly circular hachured area (diam. c. 20m) on the 1836-7 edition of the OS 6'' map. The monument has been levelled and there are no remains visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.