Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Coolbeg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.33431, -8.52155
- SMR number
- SL008-065----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated under a modern dwelling house and garden, in right angle between a lane to the E and a road to the N, on a generally S-facing slope. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a roughly circular, hachured area (diam. c.20m) on the 1940-1 edition. The site has been levelled and there are no visible surface trace visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.