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Ringfort - rath

Cloonderry, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonderry, 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
Cloonderry
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.32087, -8.44832
SMR number
SL008-095----

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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 on a slight rise in gently undulating wet pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 24m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a narrow bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 3.15m). At the external foot of the bank are a fosse (Wth 6.15m) and an external bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.95; int. H 1.2m). A roughly rectangular, now disused, quarry (dims. 12m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW; D 3m) abuts the external face of the inner bank and has been cut into the base of the fosse and through the external bank at NE. From E-WNW the external bank is absent but the outer edge of the fosse is still visible. A break (Wth 4m) in the internal bank with a causeway across the fosse at WNW marks the position of the original entrance. There is a modern break (Wth 5m) in the internal bank at WSW.

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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