Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cabragh (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.