Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowclooneen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowclooneen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.15010, -8.61002
- SMR number
- SL025-069----
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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 a hay field, on top of a ridge. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) defined by an arc of an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) SE-SSW where it is protected by an adjacent field boundary. The interior is covered by a dense growth of grass and the S half is crossed by a rough tractor track on an E-W axis. The rath is hachured on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a bivallate circular area with the outer bank only indicated N-ESE where it is incorporated into a 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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.