Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballard, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballard
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23480, -8.65508
- SMR number
- SL019-032----
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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 in undulating pasture. Raised subcircular area (dims. 33m N-S; 31.6m E-W) enclosed from N-NNE-NE and at S by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. c.3m; H 0.25m). At E it is bounded by a linear bank, the last remnants of an otherwise levelled field boundary. From SW-W-N the defining element is a scarp (H 2.9m). No fosse. Immediately outside of the site at S and within the SW quadrant of the interior are two shallow pits. Stone-lined break in bank at SW (Wth. 1.2m) may represent original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.