Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22788, -8.61528
- SMR number
- SL019-136----
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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 on a low rise in rolling pasture, within the demesne lands of the large Georgian Tanrego House. Marked as a tree-ring on both editions of the OS 6-inch map. Raised circular area (32m NE-SW; 30.7m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.1-5.6m; int. H 0.5-0.8m) with remains of possible internal kerbing. The remains of drystone walling, probably a later addition, is visible at ground level. No fosse is evident. Breaks in bank at S (Wth 2m), E (Wth 0.8m) and NNE (Wth 1.5m). This landscape feature may conceivably be an adaptation of a pre-existing rath.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.