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Ringfort - rath

Toberawnaun, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Toberawnaun, 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
Toberawnaun
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.25713, -8.73069
SMR number
SL013-037----

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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 NNE-facing slope in hilly, coastal pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 21.2m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 5.6m; int. H 0.4m - 1.4m). From WSW-W-NNW the perimeter and a small portion of the interior have been levelled as a consequence of the construction of a modern NNW-SSE field boundary. No fosse. Entrance, originally stone-lined, is at ESE (Wth. c.2.2m). A short distance inside the field boundary at WNW is a slightly raised house platform (SL013-037001-). At the centre of the interior of the rath are two low linear banks of earth and stone (Wth. 1.3m; H 0.3m) at right angles to each other. The first (L c.2.1m) is aligned NNE-SSW. The second (L c.2.3m) is at the NNE end of the first. The significance of this feature is uncertain.

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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