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Ringfort - rath

Ardabrone, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ardabrone, 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
Ardabrone
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.25527, -8.69823
SMR number
SL013-051----

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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 slight SE facing slope in pasture. The site has largely been levelled. Remains comprise roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. The majority of the bank has been levelled and what remains is preserved beneath a drystone field wall NE-SE. The surviving bank is revetted with large limestone boulders on the interior. The line of the levelled bank is visible as a slight broad inward facing scarp (int. H 0.3m) SW-NW and the enclosing element is not visible SE-SW.

Compiled by: Mark Keegan

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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