Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23129, -8.62306
- SMR number
- SL019-056001-
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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
This monument straddles the narrow spine of a low N-S ridge overlooking the W side of Ballisodare Bay. Approximately oval-shaped platform (dims. 47.3m N-S; 30m E-W) atop a steep-sided mound (H 2m). At the upper edge of the scarp at N and E are traces of levelled bank. At the foot of the mound is a space (Wth. 7m - 7.4m) beyond which from SE-S-SW and from N-NNE-NE is a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth. 7m; H 0.7m). At E and W this merges with the naturally-occurring slope of the ridge. At N it survives as a scarp (H 0.7m). Original entrance may have been at SW (Wth.3m). Within the N half of the internal area is a possible hut site (SL019-056003-). At N is a break in the outer bank (Wth. 5m - 6m). The terminals merge with the series of disused field banks which encompass the top of the ridge upon which the rath is sited (see SL019-056002-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.