Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownaboll, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaboll
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24209, -8.68015
- SMR number
- SL019-021----
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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
This monument straddles the top of a narrow WNW-ESE ridge in undulating pasture. Raised circular area (dims. 12.5m NNE-SSW; 9.7m WNW-ESE) enclosed from NE-S-NNW by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3m - 4m; H 0.5m - 1m) and elsewhere defined by a steep scarp. At the foot of the bank at E and W, where it cuts across the spine of the ridge, is a wide, deep fosse (Wth. 5m; D 1m) with ephemeral traces of a possible counterscarp bank. At the foot of the bank at S is a terrace (Wth. 3m). Fosse and terrace are absent at N. At SSE is a break in the bank (Wth. 1.6m) but there is no accompanying causeway. The internal ground level is uneven.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.