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Ringfort - rath

Ardogelly, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ardogelly, 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
Ardogelly
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.24880, -8.77230
SMR number
SL012-075----

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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 a low rise in pasture. Substantially raised circular area (diam. c.16.5m) defined by at NW and E by broadly slumped remnants of a bank (Wth 4.6-7m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext H 1.5-2m), and elsewhere by a scarp. At the outer foot of the scarp and bank at NW there is a wide fosse (Wth 6.6m) with an external bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.8m, at NW). An E-W field fence truncates the fosse and external bank at N. Elsewhere the fosse can be discerned only as a shallow depression and the external bank has been removed. At SE a break (Wth 2m) in the scarp, faced on the NE side with stones, represents the original entrance. The E half of the rath is rath is bisected by a N-S field fence.

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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