Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barroe, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barroe
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.28038, -8.43725
- SMR number
- SL015-022----
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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
Situated on level ground in a small field between two houses in overgrown pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 32.5m E-W; 31.5m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.55-8.05m; int. H 1.2m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 4.9-5.5m) and a second bank (Wth 6.45-10.4m; int. H 1.3m). At the external foot of the second bank is a fosse (Wth 4.4m) and an external bank (Wth 5.95m; int. H 0.6m). The perimeter of the site is densely overgrown and inaccessible W-NNW. From SWSW the second bank thickens with the top extending to 8m in width compared to 3.8m elsewhere. From NNW-S the external bank is absent. A break (Wth 1.4m) in the internal bank at E, with a slight causeway across the fosse and a corresponding break in the second bank, marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 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.