Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowhubbuck South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowhubbuck South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.21193, -9.09069
- SMR number
- SL016-022----
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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 at the NE edge of a NE-SW ridge at the SE side of Enniscrone village, overlooking Killala Bay. Raised circular platform (diam. 28m) enclosed by a wide earthen bank (Wth 4.5m at NE, 6.3m at SW; int. H 0.6m at NE, 0.85m at SW; ext. H 2.15m at NE, 2.75m at SW). Outside the bank at W–NW there is a shallow depression (Wth c. 2m) which may indicate an enclosing fosse. There is a break (Wth 1.4m) at W but it is not clear if this is an original entrance. Within the NE part of the enclosed area is a low, irregularly-shaped raised area (13.5m E-W; 11.5m N-S; H 0.3-0.6m) of uncertain function and antiquity.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.