Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumcliff South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcliff South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.31725, -8.47109
- SMR number
- SL008-091----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen scarp (ext. H 2.75m). At the external foot of the scarp is a wide deep fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.6m) from SW-NNW. Only fragmentary remains of the fosse are visible from NNW-NE. Elsewhere there are no remains visible at ground level. A small farmyard defined by a drystone wall, associated with an old house now used as a shed, lies across the line of the absent fosse S-SW. A ramp (Wth 2m) across the scarped edge at S marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.