Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skreen Beg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skreen Beg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.25252, -8.73617
- SMR number
- SL013-038001-
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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 hillock in undulating pasture. Raised, roughly circular area (dims. 24m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a much denuded earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.4m). From SWNW the bank is absent and the defining element is a scarp (H 0.4m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. Break in the bank at E (Wth 4m) with accompanying external ramp marks original entrance. Small quarry holes have been dug into the bank at N and W. House site (see SL013-038002-) is located centrally in the interior.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.