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
- 54.23009, -8.79083
- SMR number
- SL018-039001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, situated on a level area beneath the top of a broad E-W ridge. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.7m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 1.1m), U-shaped in profile. At the outer lip of the fosse at S are ephemeral traces of a possible outer bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.2m). A break (Wth. 6m) in the bank and fosse at WNW may mark the original entrance. Centrally located within the interior is a possible souterrain (SL018-039002-). The remainder of the internal ground level of the rath is uneven.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.