Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Donaghintraine, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.