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
- 54.27523, -8.94778
- SMR number
- SL011-039----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 NE-facing slope in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m). The bank encloses the site on all sides and is eroded in most areas as a result of livestock traffic and modern field clearance activity. The original entrance to the site is not recognisable. The fosse is visible as a darker band of grass NE-SE with no visible trace elsewhere. A small modern quarry consisting of a circular depression (diam. 8m; D 0.35m) is situated on the SW side of the interior against the inner face of the bank.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.