Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Loughanelteen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughanelteen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27608, -8.35770
- SMR number
- SL015-062----
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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 steep SW-facing slope in undulating pasture. The area is heavily covered with scrub and hazel trees. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6'' map as an oval-shaped enclosure and on the 1912 edition as a hachured roughly circular area (diam. c.20m). The site has been levelled; no visible surface trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.