Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hazelwood Demesne, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hazelwood Demesne
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27299, -8.42707
- SMR number
- SL015-024----
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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 a slight SW-facing slope in a mature ash wood. Raised roughly circular area (diam. 39m) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.5m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 4.9m) and a berm (Wth 4m). At the external edge of the berm is a second bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.75m; int. H 0.4m) and a narrow external fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.4m). From W-NW the internal fosse is absent and the line of the berm is not visible. The external bank has been incorporated into a NE-SW orientated field boundary bank SW-N. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.