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Ringfort - unclassified

Cabragh (Tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Cabragh, 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
Cabragh (Tireragh By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.26458, -9.03135
SMR number
SL011-061----

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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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, located on a low rise in gently undulating terrain. Raised circular area (diam. 27.5 NNE–SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m, at N) which is best preserved on the N half of the rath. On the 1913 OS 6-inch map the rath is shown enclosed by a fosse and external bank. A slight depression outside the bank at N may indicate the fosse but the external bank has been removed. At E–S a field fence skirts the rath possibly following the line of the original external bank. The entrance may have been at E where there is a low section of bank, now partly blocked by field clearance boulders.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 15 April 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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