Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyeeskeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyeeskeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24364, -8.82522
- SMR number
- SL012-055001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In a thicket of overgrowth, located on the NE edge of an elevation, overlooking a river which lies c. 70m to E. Raised circular flat-topped area (diam. c. 25m E-W) defined on top by a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.4m) of earth and stones. At S the platform has an external height of c. 3.5m. At W–N the steep sides are enhanced by the natural slope of the ridge (H c. 9-10m). Densely covered in trees and overgrowth. A folly (SL012-055002-), indicated as ‘Lady Margaret’s Tower’ on the 1913 OS 6-inch map, was located in the NE quadrant.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.