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Ringfort - rath

Magheragillerneeve Or Springfield, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Magheragillerneeve Or Springfield, 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
Magheragillerneeve Or Springfield
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.30297, -8.48037
SMR number
SL008-140----

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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

Straddling a low NE−SW rise in gently undulating wet pasture. Slightly raised subcircular area (56m NE-SW; 54 NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.5mm; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 1.2-1.4mm; D 0.4m). A NNW-ESE orientated field boundary bank, with a drain on the E side, clips the fosse at NE-ESE. There are breaks in the bank at W (Wth 2.2m) and at E (Wth 3.5m); either may mark the position of the original entrance.
The interior slopes down gently from centre to N. A central spine of slightly raised ground, probably natural, extends on a NE−SW axis through the centre of the interior. This rise has been largely quarried out in the past, leaving an irregular-shaped area (28m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE; D 0.5m) of pits and hollows in the centre of the rath.

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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