Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowgilpatrick, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgilpatrick
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.22621, -8.65339
- SMR number
- SL019-109----
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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
Situated on top of a N-S ridge in pasture. Raised oval-shaped area (36m N-S; 24.6m E-W) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and and stone (Wth. 6m; H 0.45m; H 0.9m). It is best preserved at S and W but is very low internally with a broad external slope. Elsewhere the defining element is a scarp. At the foot of the bank and scarp from NE-S-SSW is a shallow fosse (Wth. 3m - 3.5m). From NW-NNW-N the outer bank is well preserved (Wth. 4m; H 0.65m). From N-S-SSW it is low and degraded. From SSW-W-NNW it is overlain by a field boundary. Original entrance not recognisable. Low, sod-covered, linear rises within the interior may mark internal divisions. Access to a souterrain (SL019-109001-) is located in the inner bank at W.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 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.