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Ringfort - rath

Barroe, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Barroe, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Barroe
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.29185, -8.44254
SMR number
SL015-002----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on NE end of a broad NE-SW orientated ridge, on a slight NNW-facing slope, in undulating pasture. Natural ground level slopes down sharply from the monument NW-N. Raised circular area (diam. 32m) enclosed by a broad flat-topped bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m. At the external base of the bank is a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.3m). The bank is best preserved NNE-E, where it has a broad flat-topped profile, being very denuded by livestock elsewhere. The fosse encloses the site NNE-SE and is absent elsewhere. Modern sheds and a yard area have been built on the line of the absent fosse SE-S. The original entrance to the site is not recognisable. There is a modern break (Wth 2.4m) in the bank at NW with an oval modern hollow (dims 4.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW; D 0.3m) in the interior immediately inside it.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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