Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballard,carrowgilpatrick, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballard,carrowgilpatrick
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23054, -8.64893
- SMR number
- SL019-037----
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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
Depicted as a circular enclosure bisected by into two roughly equal portions by the NW-SE townland boundary on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On the 1913 edition it is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure whose straight side (L c 50m) is a formed by a NE-SW field boundary which is also shown as part of the townland boundary. A small portion of the enclosure at NE, marked by hachures, is shown outside the circuit of the remainder by the corner of a NW-SE and a NE-SW field boundary. There is a break in the defining element (L c 20m) from ENE-E-SE. A series of hachures define the remainder of the circuit. A linear hachured feature (L c 17m) extends into the interior from the centre of the straight side. This monument, almost certainly a rath, has been levelled and there are no remains now visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.