Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Colgagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Colgagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27759, -8.39850
- SMR number
- SL015-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Straddling a slight hillock, in gently undulating pasture, 150m N of the N shore of Colgagh Lough. A cashel (SL015-041---) is visible 120m to the SW. Circular raised area (diam. 28m) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.6m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. A modern NNW-ESE drystone field wall has been constructed on top of the bank NE-E. A break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank with a ramp to the exterior at S marks the position of the original entrance. The centre of the site is c.2m higher then external ground level as the site is built around a natural rise.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.