Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carney (jones), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carney (jones)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.33779, -8.53748
- SMR number
- SL008-061----
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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 on a slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly circular area (diam. c.22m) enclosed by a narrow-topped bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.1m) of earth and stone with a steep external face. At the external base of the bank is a fosse (Wth 5.2m) with a broad flat-topped bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.1m). From SE-SW the internal bank is absent and the edge is defined by a steep scarp (ext. H 2.6m). A modern drain cuts through the external bank at NNW and flows S along the base of the fosse into a marshy area immediately to the SW of the rath. The external bank is barely visible NNE-NE and is not visible at ground level NE-SW. A ramp (Wth 6m) to the exterior at SE marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.