Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.22669, -8.61742
- SMR number
- SL019-137001-
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 on a rise within a fenced-off wooded grove in rolling coastal pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 41m NE-SW) enclosed by a stony earthen bank (Wth. 6.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.3-4.5m; D 0.4-1.1m). The bank is on its inner face, but has a broad external slump. The fosse can be traced for most of the circuit, but is not evident at N. At the outer lip of the fosse from E-SE and at W there are collapsed remnants of a field boundary wall. A break in bank at SE (Wth 3.5m) may represent the original entrance. There is also a gap (Wth 2.5m) at NE. To E of the centre in the interior a low E-facing scarp marks a slight drop in ground level. There is a possible souterrain (SL019-137002-) in the W half of the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.