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Ringfort - rath

Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tanrego West, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tanrego West
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.23129, -8.62306
SMR number
SL019-056001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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