Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Alternan Park, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alternan Park
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26849, -8.90039
- SMR number
- SL011-081001-
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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 slight E-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m), with an external fosse (Wth 4.25m; D 0.45m) which is evident only as a very shallow depression at NNW-NNE. At SW-NW there is a break in the bank and immediately outside this a NNW-SSE field wall overlies the line of the fosse. There is gentle slope down from W to E in the E half of the interior.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.