Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilrusheighter, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrusheighter
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26046, -8.79232
- SMR number
- SL012-016001-
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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 at the NW edge of a NW-SE ridge overlooking a beach at the S side of Sligo Bay. Examaination of an aerial photograph suggests that it was originally circular in form (diam. c. 30m). It was defined at N, NE and SW by the natural slope of the ridge. Where the slope is highest and steepest, at W (H 4.5m), it is cordoned off by a linear NE-SW field boundary bank and gully. At its SW end, close to the edge of the ridge, the bank cuts through a possible hut site (SL012-016001-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.