Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Frankford, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frankford
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20504, -9.07388
- SMR number
- SL016-045----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the SW edge of a N-S ridge in pasture. Raised roughly circular area (40m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 5.1-6.2m; int. H 0.6-1.1m; ext. H 1.8-2m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m - 6m). At the outer edge of the fosse is a second bank (Wth 3.4-4m; int. H 1-1.4m; ext. H 0.5-1m). A break (Wth 3.6m) in the inner bank at E, with accompanying causeway across the fosse, represents the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.