Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fortland, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortland
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27727, -8.94900
- SMR number
- SL011-038----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on slight ENE-facing slope in pasture. Slightly raised oval area (26m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.40m). No fosse is visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. Mature ash trees grow at regular intervals on top of the bank on all sides. Two small quarries have been dug in the interior. The first consists of an oval hollow (8m N-S; 3.8m E-W; D 0.45m) against the inner base of the bank at W. The second consists of an oval hollow (5m E-W; 2m N-W; D 0.4m) against the inner base of the bank at SE.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.