Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowgun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18677, -9.08128
- SMR number
- SL016-010001-
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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 ridge in pasture. Raised circular area (39.4m E-W; 38.8m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m at E, 4.1m at W; 0.7m at E, 0.4m at W; ext. H 1.1m at E, 2.3m at W) with a wide, deep external fosse (Wth. 6.6m). At the outer lip of the fosse is a field boundary which was probably fashioned from a pre-existing bank (Wth 1.9m at E, 5.6m at W; int. H 0.7m at E, 1.5m at W; ext. H 0.4m at E, 1.2m at W). There is evidence for a stone kerb at the inner face of the inner bank. There are two breaks in the inner bank, one (Wth 1.6m) at E, and another (Wth 2m) at S. Within the interior at N there is a possible souterrain (SL016-010002-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.