Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barroe, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barroe
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.29185, -8.44254
- SMR number
- SL015-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.