Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23756, -8.51066
- SMR number
- SL020-059----
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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
Located on the edge of a ridge in flat to undulating pasture with views onto Lough Gill, The Ox mountains and Knocknarea. Comprises a circular area (int. diam. 29m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 5.80m, H 1.60m) and external ditch (Wth 4m, D 1.20m). There is an entrance in the NW (Wth 2.70m) with a corresponding causeway through the ditch.
Compiled by : Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 14 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.