Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Breeoge, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breeoge
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23198, -8.54242
- SMR number
- SL020-038----
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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, located on a rise in gently undulating terrain, overlooking Ballysadare Bay, the shoreline of which is c. 300m to S. There is a marshy peninsula c. 100m to S which extends S into the bay. This possible rath was partly levelled in 2006 during ground works. It is evident as a roughly D-shaped, raised area (c. 33m NNE–SSW; c. 26m WSW–ESE) most clearly defined on the SW arc but low and degraded elsewhere, with a poorly defined depression (Wth 2.2m; D 0.1m) at SSW possibly indicating an external fosse. A 1991 report recorded it as a roughly circular, raised area (diam. c. 30m) which was defined by a scarp (H 1m) on its S half. The perimeter at N graded into the surrounding field and was difficult to trace. A shallow depression (Wth 3-4m; D 0.1-0.2m) on the W side indicated a possible external fosse.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.