Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosses Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.31415, -8.55097
- SMR number
- SL008-103001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a flat-topped rise in undulating rocky pasture. Natural ground level slopes down steeply c.6m outside the site SW-E. Roughly circular area (dims. 26m E-W; 25m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.6m; H 0.5m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank is best preserved N-SE where the internal sides are revetted with thick limestone slabs laid on edge. From SE-N the revetting is absent and the bank is very denuded. A WNW-ESE orientated drystone field wall crosses the S side of the interior intersecting with the bank of the rath at WSW and at SE. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.