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Ringfort - unclassified

Dromore (Tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Dromore, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dromore (Tireragh By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.24656, -8.88141
SMR number
SL012-030----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on the W edge of Dromore West village. Represented as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch map (surveyed 1837), it is shown as bisected centrally on a E-W axis by a trackway on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1909-12). This enclosure has been levelled.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 05 November 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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