Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barnabrack, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnabrack
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.22052, -8.63001
- SMR number
- SL019-133----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 atop a narrow NNE-SSW ridge with a pronounced ESE slope. Raised circular area (diam. c.20m) defined from SW-W-N by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 4.5m - 5m; int. H 0.7m) which has a modern field boundary at its foot from WNW-N-NNE. Elsewhere the defining element is a a scarp which merges with the steep natural slope of the ridge. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.