Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creaghadoo, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creaghadoo
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.33044, -8.43030
- SMR number
- SL009-010----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight SW-facing slope on a natural triangular promontory overlooking the confluence of the Drumcliff River and a stream c. 150m to the SW. Roughly circular raised area (39m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.15m; int. H 0.4m). A fosse (Wth 5.65m; D 0.4m) is located at the external foot of the bank SW-SE. From SE-SW the bank is almost entirely absent and the edge of the site lies along the top of an E-W orientated S-facing steep natural slope that falls down to the Drumcliff River located 35m to the S. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at NNW, with a causeway across the fosse, marks the position of the original entrance. There are modern breaks in the bank at WNW (Wth 2m), N (Wth 2m) and at ENE (Wth 2m) were there is a ramp into the fosse.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.