Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Culleens, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleens
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.22850, -9.01219
- SMR number
- SL017-010----
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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 rise in poorly-drained pasture. Raised oval area (33m E-W; 25m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 3-3.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.85-1m) with an external fosse (Wth. 2.5m) evident as a shallow depression. The site is divided into unequal portions by a modern ENE-WSW field boundary. The ground level of the enclosed area is uneven. Close to the centre is a subcircular hollow (dims. 2m x 3m). Projecting into the interior from the inner face of the bank at E is a a semi-circular area (5m N-S; 3m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.