Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bunnafedia, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunnafedia
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.22966, -8.66851
- SMR number
- SL019-025----
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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 a rise in level, lowlying pasture. Circular platform (dims. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) atop a high mound of earth and stone (H 3.1m). The platform is enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 6m; H 0.5m) with evidence for internal stone kerbing. At the foot of the mound is a wide fosse (Wth. 5m) with a substantial outer bank (Wth. 5m; H 1m - 1.3m). The outer bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary from SSE-S-WNW. Stone-lined breaks in bank at E (Wth. 1.5m and 2m) with connecting causeway represents original entrance. Within the internal area, immediately inside the entrance, is an approx. square, slightly sunken area (dims. 9m NE-SW; c.8.5m NW-SE - D 0.2m) whose SE and SW sides are defined by settings of small stones. Only the outline of its NW side is now identifiable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.