Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackanatlieve, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackanatlieve
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20443, -9.04757
- SMR number
- SL016-048----
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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 low hillock in undulating pasture. Raised circular platform (23m E-W; 21m N-S), enclosed at top by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.3-0.6m). The external slope of the bank merge with the sides of the hillock (H c. 6.5m). At the foot of the mound at NW-E a fosse is evident as a shallow depression (Wth 3.5m; max. D 0.6m) which changes at SE-W to a level terrace (Wth 3-4m; ext. H 0.5m). A break (Wth 2.8m) in the bank at NE, with a ramp-like causeway (Wth 2m) racross the fosse, represents the original entrance. There are a number of quarry holes and accompanying mounds of upcast within the enclosed area.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.