Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shannon Eighter, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shannon Eighter
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28542, -8.47154
- SMR number
- SL014-064----
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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 gentle rise in pasture, adjacent to a stream. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but not marked on the 1940 edition. There are no remains visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.