Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunowla, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunowla
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23585, -8.83288
- SMR number
- SL018-023001-
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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 top of an E-W ridge in pasture. Raised subcircular area (29m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m at NW, 1.5m at SE) with traces of internal stone facing at N. From WSW-WNW the bank has been modified and incorporated into a modern NNW-SSE field boundary. At the outer foot of the bank from SE-SW is a fosse (Wth 2m) with an external bank (c. 4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m). The external bank has been modified and incorporated into a modern ENE-WSW field boundary. Elsewhere fosse and outer bank are absent. There are breaks in the inner bank at NE (Wth 2m) and E (Wth 2.5m), both of which seem to be of relatively modern origin. A short distance W of the centre of the interior is a subrectangular area defined by a low bank, possibly a house (SL018-23002-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.