Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooney, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooney
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20625, -8.54809
- SMR number
- SL020-152----
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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 undulating pasture, on top of a ridge near the foot of the Ox Mountains. Indicated on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as a hachured semicircular area (diam c. 30m) on the N side of a field boundary. The interior, which is inaccessible due to dense overgrowth, is enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: Wth 4m; ext. H 2.3m; outer bank: Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 5m). The S perimeter of the rath is truncated by an E-W stone 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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.