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
- 54.21781, -9.01113
- SMR number
- SL017-032001-
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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
Marked 'Roycloghany' on the OS 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on an E-facing slope a short distance below the top of a N-S ridge in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 32m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.7m), whose internal face may have been faced with stone, with an external fosse (Wth 4.3m; ext. D 0.6m at SE) which is barely identifiable at the W side. Break (Wth. 2m) in bank at E may represent original entrance. The enclosed area is divided into roughly equal portions by a low NW-SE bank (Wth 1.3m; H 0.2m) which extends through the centre. Abutting the E side of this bank is a possible hut site (SL017-032002-). It consists of a square area (dim. 4m) whose N and S sides are defined by ephemeral remains of a low bank or wall. Adjoining this at S is a subrectangular hollow (4m N-S; 3m E-W). Abutting the dividing wall at SW is a subcircular depression (diam. 4m; D 0.3m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.