Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Finnure, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnure
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.26206, -8.68415
- SMR number
- SL013-020001-
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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 slight rise on slight NE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (dims. 28m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 8.2m; int. H 0.8m) at NW and from ENE-SE. Elsewhere the defining element is a scarp (H 1.65m). At the foot of the scarp and bank from NE-SE is a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.6m). Elsewhere this has been infilled but its outline (Wth 3.5m) is identifiable from NW-NNE and SE-SW. The original entrance is visible as a 5m wide gap in bank at E with an accompanying causeway across the fosse. A length of a drystone-built boundary wall (H 0.8m; Wth 0.6m) aligned NE-SW, extends across the NW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.