Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cummeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27634, -8.53101
- SMR number
- SL014-044----
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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 rough pasture bordered to the N and E by third class roads. A circular area (c. 30m) is enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m; Wth 2.2m), a fosse (Wth 2.78m) and an external earth and stone bank (int. H 1.03m; ext H 1.12m; Wth 2.7m). This latter feature is extent for the entire circuit, except from NE to SE where it is truncated by the third class road. The entrance is located in the NNW, and is indicated by a break in the internal bank (Wth 2.4m) and in the external bank (6m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.