Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockadoo (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadoo (leyny By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14981, -8.65061
- SMR number
- SL025-059001-
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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, at a break in slope on the N side of a ridge. A raised circular area (37.2m N-S; 37.7m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2.7m). Gaps occur in the bank at N (Wth 3m), at W (Wth 1.5m) and at E (Wth 1m). A field boundary has been built onto the external face of the bank E-SW. The bank has been dug into in several places E-S. A shallow depression (Wth 1.4m), evident outside the bank W-NNW, may be the remains of an external fosse. There is a souterrain (SL025-059002-) in the SW quadrant of the interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.