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Ringfort - rath

Carrowgilpatrick, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowgilpatrick, 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
Carrowgilpatrick
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.22621, -8.65339
SMR number
SL019-109----

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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

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

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

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