Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Seafield, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seafield
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23782, -8.54848
- SMR number
- SL020-013001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a hillock in undulating rocky pasture overlooking Ballysadare Bay. Comprises an oval raised area (L 24.90m, Wth 18.35m). It is enclosed by a stone wall with an outer fosse and external stony bank. The internal wall is best preserved in the W ( Wth 4.35m, H 0.50m) the fosse in the E (Wth 10m) and external bank in the W ( Wth 1.30m, H 0.50m). The entrance ( Wth 2.30m) is located in the E and has a corresponding causeway ( L 13m, Wth 3.50m).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload; 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.