Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bleachgreen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bleachgreen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18707, -8.49818
- SMR number
- SL020-201----
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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, on a N-facing slope. An oval grass-covered platform (28m N-S; 25m E-W; H 1.5m) with the remains of a low bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m) along the SE arc. An oval area (10m x 5m) has been quarried out of the N edge. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked or raised circular area (diam. c. 18m) within a bleaching green. There is a circular enclosure (SL020-202----) c. 150m to SE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.