Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathbraghan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbraghan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.28762, -8.46292
- SMR number
- SL014-024----
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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 a natural hill in gentle undulating pasture. A circular area (diam. 29.6m) is enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.53m; Wth. 0.53m) to the N and by a scarp (H 1.35m) to the S. There is no trace of a fosse or an original entrance feature. The fort was refortified during the Cromwellian wars and was used again by the Williamite army in 1691 as a base camp for attacking Sligo (Wood-Martin 1892, 134).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
References
Wood-Martin, W.G. 1892 History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the revolution of 1688 to the present time. Dublin. Hodges Figgis.
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.