Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cregg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.31152, -8.50837
- SMR number
- SL008-125----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight E-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Another rath (SL008-123---) is visible 250m to the N. Raised roughly D-shaped area (dims. 20m N-S; 16m E-W) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank is best preserved S-N but is only barely visible ESE-S. The internal base of the bank is revetted with a single row of limestone rubble stone W-NW. From N-ESE the bank and a portion of the interior have been removed with the edge of the site now defined by an irregular low NW-SE orientated scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.