Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fallathurteen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fallathurteen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.25522, -8.66826
- SMR number
- SL013-070----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.