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Ringfort - rath

Donaghintraine, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Donaghintraine, 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
Donaghintraine
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.25356, -8.85369
SMR number
SL012-040----

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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

Situated on the N side of a low E-W ridge. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Slightly raised D-shaped area (23m E-W; 17m N-S) enclosed on the curving side at W-E by an earthen bank (Wth. 4.4m; H 0.6m), and on the straight side at S by a modern field fence on a roughly E–W axis. No trace of the enclosure survives to S of this field fence. At W–NW the bank is levelled to a slight scarp. At NE, c. 2.5m from the outer foot of the bank, are remnants of an embankment (H 0.9m) which is faced with stones on its N side. The interior is bisected roughly centrally by a NNW-SSE field boundary. This appears to be the remains of a circular rath, the S half of which has been levelled.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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