Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathlee, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlee
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27603, -9.03820
- SMR number
- SL011-145----
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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 level, lowlying average pasture. There is a spring well c. 50m to SSE. This enclosure survives as a very low-profile, subrectangular or roughly trapezoidal area (34m E–W; 38m N–S at W, 27m at E) defined on the N, E and S by a slight scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) outside which is a shallow fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.4m). The enclosing elements are poorly defined but more easily traced on the E and S sides. The enclosure is bordered on the W side by a modern field fence/property boundary flanked by field ditches. Roughly in the centre of the E half of the interior is a shallow oblong depression (9-10m N–S; 6m E-W). Outside the fosse at S is a slightly raised, flat-topped area (Wth 7m N–S) bordered on its S side by a traces of another fosse or field ditch.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.