Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullanashee, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullanashee
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20282, -8.59397
- SMR number
- SL019-170----
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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
In pasture, on top of a rise on a ridge; the ground falls away to N and on the S rises towards the N-facing slopes of the Ox Mountains. A roughly circular area (c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (max. H 2m at N) and densely overgrown with blackthorn bushes and brambles. The scarp is topped by a low spread of loose stones (Wth c. 4m) SE-W, with much stone tumble down the slope there and also N-E. This stone is possibly the remains of a later boundary wall rather than an original feature of the rath. The interior slopes slightly down to E and is bisected by a WNW-ESE field boundary.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.