Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygreighan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygreighan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23805, -8.78943
- SMR number
- SL018-038----
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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 the narrow top of an E-W ridge in undulating, hilly pasture. Raised circular area (22.5m E-W; 20.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.5m, at NE). The bank is very low on the internal face and, for much of the circuit, is largely reduced to a scarp (ext. H 2.6m at SW). A break in bank (Wth 4m) at E may mark the original entrance. Within the S part of the interior is a hollow area (5.4m E-W; 3.8m N-S; D 0.6m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.