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Ringfort - rath

Grange Beg, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Grange Beg, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Grange Beg
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.23961, -8.77723
SMR number
SL018-040----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, located on a narrow E–W ridge which provides excellent views NE–NW over lowlying coastal grasslands, and to S of lands rising to the Ox Mountains. Raised circular area (diam. 28m) defined at SW–NW by an earthen bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m at NW), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (ext. H 1.7m at SE). Outside the bank at NW-NE there is a fosse (Wth 3m), evident as a shallow depression, on the outer edge of which is a low rise (Wth 3m), possibly the remains of an external bank. In the interior there is a slight slope down from the centre towards an entrance gap (Wth 4m) at E. A low rise in ground level immediately outside the entrance may be the remains of a causeway. Traces of cultivation ridges traverse the interior on a N–S axis. A pit (6m E–W; 7.2m N–S; D 1m) has been dug into the interior at S.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 14 August 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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