Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickhenry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickhenry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23802, -8.48284
- SMR number
- SL020-077001-
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
Located on a knoll in undulating pasture. Comprises a circular site (int. diam. 21m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.50m, H 0.70m). No indication of a ditch. The entrance is in the E and is lined with a number of large stones. An elongated hollow in the S part of the interior may be the remains of a collapsed souterrain (SL020-077002-).
Compiled by : Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 16 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.