Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinvoher (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvoher (carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.29980, -8.48519
- SMR number
- SL014-010----
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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
On high ground in undulating pasture. A circular area (diam. 26.2m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.23m; ext. H 0.15m; Wth 1.4m), a fosse (Wth 2.4m), a second bank (int. H 0.26m; ext. H 0.76m, Wth 2m), an outer fosse (Wth 2m) and an external bank (int. H 0.84m; ext H 0.47m; Wth 1.3m) which survives from SE to N only. An entrance occurs at the S (Wth inner bank; 3.2m; Wth second bank 1.8m; Wth external bank 5m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.