Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toberawnaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberawnaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.25713, -8.73069
- SMR number
- SL013-037----
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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 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.