Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange Beg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Beg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23251, -8.77583
- SMR number
- SL018-041----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated atop a hill in rough pasture. Small, slightly riased area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3.2m; int. H 0.2m) with ephemeral traces of a possible external fosse at S and SW (Wth. 2m). From SSW-W-NNW the bank has been incorporated into a NNW-SSE field boundary. Original entrance not rcognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.