Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballincar, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincar
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.30001, -8.50340
- SMR number
- SL014-006001-
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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
In undulating pasture, on NW edge of a housing estate. Depicted as a circular enclosure on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. On the 1940 edition it is named 'Tumulus'. Inspected in 2004, this rath comprises a raised oval area (30.7m N-S; 24.4m E-W) defined on all sides by a steep scarp (max. H at E 4.7m) and an external fosse (Wth 3.4m; ext. D 0.83m), with causewayed entrance (Wth 3.7m) at N. Within the interior is a possible house site (SL014-006003-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 07 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.