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
- 54.22442, -8.78413
- SMR number
- SL018-069----
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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 near the break of slope on the SE side of a high NE-SW ridge in undulating pasture. Raised circular area (26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m) with ephemeral traces of a levelled bank at its upper edge (Wth 2.6m). At the foot of the scarp is a shallow fosse (Wth 2- 3.5m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.6-4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1-1.2m) which has been quarried away at S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.