Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bellanurly, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellanurly
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.29549, -8.42397
- SMR number
- SL015-008----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 37m) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.45m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.5m). A plantation of 25 year old coniferous trees encroaches into the W side of the interior causing slight damage to the bank and infilling the fosse WSW-NW. Modern field drains link to the fosse at NW, SE and at SW and the fosse has been re-cut as a field drain NW-SW. A break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank at NNE marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.