Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caltragh (tireragh By., Rathmacurkey Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltragh (tireragh By., Rathmacurkey Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26177, -8.97784
- SMR number
- SL011-068----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 level ground in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Raised roughly circular area (diam. 18m) enclosed by a scarp of earth and stone (ext. H 0.55m). There is no visible trace of a fosse at ground level. From WSW-W- NNW the scarp is mostly levelled and only a low scarp (H 0.3m) survives. From NNW-NE-E the line of the removed scarp is visible as a low inward facing scarp (int. H 0.2m). From E-SE the scarp is entirely absent. The original entrance is not recognisable. A SW-NE drystone wall divides the site lying to SE of centre across the interior. The site has been levelled to the NW of this wall.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.