Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolbeg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.33294, -8.52384
- SMR number
- SL008-066----
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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
Straddling a narrow WNW-ESE orientated elongated rise in gently undulating wet pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 70m E-W; 68m N-S) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.6m). At the external base of the bank is wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.4m). The bank is best preserved from N-S being barely visible elsewhere. From SSE-N the fosse is in-filled and barely visible. The original entrance is not recognisable. A livestock track (Wth 1.4m) through the bank at E allows access at present. The interior of the site, although raised, reflects the underlying natural slopes with the N one-quarter sloping slightly facing NNE and the S half sloping slightly facing SSW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.