Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23448, -8.61752
- SMR number
- SL019-058001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in pasture at the W side of Ballisodare Bay. Raised oval-shaped area (dims. 38m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed from SW-W-N by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 6.5m; H 1.1m) with an external fosse (Wth. 4.6m; D 1.2m). There is some evidence for a stone revetment at the inner face of the bank. For the remainder of the circuit the defining element is a partially eroded scarp (H 0.7m - 1.4m). Original entrance not recognisable. Within the internal area at SE is a small rectangular pit (dims. 2.35m N-S; 1.6m E-W - D 0.4m). Immediately NE of this are two parallel gullies or furrows which extend NNE through the remainder of the internal area.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.