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Ringfort - rath

Fallathurteen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Fallathurteen, 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
Fallathurteen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.25522, -8.66826
SMR number
SL013-070----

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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 NE-facing slope, on low rise, in gently undulating pasture. The site has been largely removed by quarrying. Remains comprise a raised oval area (dims. 29m E-W; 22m N-S) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.4m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. From W-N-E-SE and the bank is absent and the defining element is a scarp (H 0.3m-0.6m). Two gaps in the scarped edge at NNW and NE (each Wth 5m) are modern. The original entrance is not recognisable. A large, roughly rectangular, flat bottomed quarry hole (dims. 15m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW; D 1.4m) now extends across the NE side of the interior. A smaller, roughly circular, quarry (diam. 4m; D 0.4m) lies in the interior 2m to the SE of the large quarry.

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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