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
- 54.22404, -8.77240
- SMR number
- SL018-071----
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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 top of a S-facing slope overlooking a ford in a small WNW-ESE river a short distance below. Raised circular platform (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.85m; ext. c. 3m) with evidence for both internal and external stone revetment. The bank has been incorporated into a field boundary at NNW-SSE. At the foot of the mound from WSW-NW is a wide, deep fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 1.2m) with a flat-topped rise (Wth. 4.2m; H 1.1m) at its outer lip which may be the remains of an original outer bank. At the foot of the mound at S the fosse changes form to a terrace (Wth 5m) on the steep slope overlooking the stream. The SE quadrant of the interior has been quarried out. A modern farm road skirts the rath at NE-SE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.