Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltycahill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltycahill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27335, -8.41773
- SMR number
- SL015-029----
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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 summit of an E-W orientated ridge in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. c.22m) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.85m; int. H 0.3-0.5m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 4.65m; D 0.3m). From W-SE the bank is mostly denuded and difficult to trace being better preserved and consistent elsewhere. From ENE-NW the fosse is absent. A NNE-WSW orientated field boundary bank lies along the line of the fosse ENE-SE. Field boundary banks link to the bank of the rath at ENE, NE and SE. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is densely overgrown with thorn bushes.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.