Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownaboll, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaboll
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23629, -8.67888
- SMR number
- SL019-023----
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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise on a generally S-facing slope a short distance above a waterlogged area. Raised oblong area (dims. 28m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE) defined from SSW-W-NNE by a scarp (H 1.4m - 2.8m). Elsewhere the perimeter has been largely quarried away. No bank or fosse. Original entrance not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.