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Ringfort - rath

Creggyconnell, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Creggyconnell, 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
Creggyconnell
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.31164, -8.52475
SMR number
SL008-116----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. c.25m) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.15m; int. H 0.4m). At the external foot of the bank is a broad flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4m) and a low external bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.6m). The external bank has been added to in modern times with dumps of field clearance earth and stone NE-SW. From SW-NW the external bank has been incorporated into a SSW-ENE orientated field boundary bank and has been removed NW-N. A break (Wth 2.4m) in the internal bank with a causeway across the fosse at E marks the position of the original entrance. The corresponding entrance break in the external bank has been infilled with field clearance material.

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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