Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeenduff (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenduff (tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27798, -8.93650
- SMR number
- SL011-045001-
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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 W-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 1.6m) of earth and stone. There is no trace of a fosse at ground level. The original entrance to the site is via a break (Wth 3m) in the bank at NNW. The external face of the bank is revetted with large rubble boulders roughly laid forming a wall 1-1.2m high. The revetting is best preserved SW-NW. From N-NE a roughly E-W orientated relic field bank incorporates the external face of the bank. The NW quadrant of the interior is slightly raised above the rest of the interior. The internal raised area (11m N-S; 13m E-W) is defined by a scarped edge (Wth 1m; H 0.45m) on the S and E sides and by the bank of the rath on the W and N sides. There is a souterrain (SL011-045002-) in the rath.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.