Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfaris, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfaris
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.25322, -8.76254
- SMR number
- SL012-079----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low rise in undulating pasture. Circular platform (diam. 23.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a wide earthen bank (Wth 5-6.5m; int. H 0.15-0.5m; ext. H 1.7 at SW, 2.8m at NE) with stone facing at top. The bank at N is incorporated into a later field fence. Original entrance may have been at SW. A shallow trench (Wth 1.4m; D 0.2m), flanked by slight banks (Wth 1.4-1.8m; H 0.2m), possibly a cultivation feature, travereses the centre of the interior on a NW-SE axis.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.