Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymeeny (armstrong), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymeeny (armstrong)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26136, -8.90653
- SMR number
- SL011-083001-
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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 in level wet pasture. Raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 2.5m; H 0.4m) with a fosse (Wth 3.2m) and an external bank of earth (Wth 2.1m; H 0.7m). The interior is densely overgrown with thick gorse extending in a broad ENE-WSW orientated band (Wth c. 15m) on the S side of a field bank that crosses the N side of the site. This overgrowth obscures the enclosing elements at W and at NE. An arc of earthen bank (Wth 2.05m; int. H 0.3m) lies within, and concentric with, the internal bank SE-SW. This bank is separated from the internal bank by a berm (Wth 1.25m). This bank may extend further but extent is obscured by overgrowth. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.