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Ringfort - rath

Finned (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Finned, 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
Finned (Carbury By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.33575, -8.53258
SMR number
SL008-062----

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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 10m to the S of the E-W flowing Carney River. Another rath (SL008-061----) is visible c.400m to the NW. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a broad flat-topped bank of earth (Wth 6.4m; int. H 1m). At the external base of the bank is a silted up fosse (Wth 2.5m). The bank encloses the site SW-SSE and is best preserved W-NE where it is overgrown with dense gorse. From NE-SSE and SW-W the bank is very denuded and is absent SSE-SW where the circuit is defined by a scarp (ext. H 0.2m). The fosse encloses the site SE-NW only and is visible as a band (Wth 2.5m) of wetter ground around the site. A modern N-S orientated field drain lies along the line of the absent fosse ENE-SE and an E-W orientated modern field drain, now relic and largely silted up, lies along the outer edge of the fosse SSE-SW. The original entrance is not recognisable.

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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