Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corkagh Beg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corkagh Beg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.26185, -8.74112
- SMR number
- SL013-005----
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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 in hilly, coastal pasture. Raised subcircular area (dims. 30.8m NNE-SSW; 26.4m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 5.1m; int. H 0.1m - 0.5m) except from NNW-N-ESE and at WSW where the defining element is a broad scarp (H 0.9m - 2.5m). No fosse. Modern entrance at NW (Wth. 4.3m) may mark the site of the original.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.