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Ringfort - unclassified

Cooldrumman Upper, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Cooldrumman Upper, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cooldrumman Upper
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.34863, -8.52290
SMR number
SL008-036----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in low-lying level wet pasture on a very slight S-facing slope. Slightly raised roughly circular area (dims. 27m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by a narrow internal bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m). At the external foot of the internal bank is the first flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.6m). Immediately outside the first fosse is a broad intermediate bank (Wth 3.75m; int. H 0.7m). At the external foot of the intermediate bank is a second flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.35m). Immediately outside the second fosse is a broad external bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m). From NW-NNE the intermediate bank has been almost entirely removed. A sweathouse (SL008-036002-) has been built into intermediate bank at NNE. A NNE-WSW orientated field boundary bank crosses the external bank of the rath at NW and at SW. A drystone wall extends E-W from the intermediate bank at NW and along the external face of the internal bank NNW-NNE. A break (Wth 1.7m) in the internal with a corresponding break in the intermediate bank (Wth 2.5m) and the external bank (Wth 3.8m) at SSE marks the position of the original entrance.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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