Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathgran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.15109, -8.59420
- SMR number
- SL025-073----
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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, close to the break of an E-facing slope. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 25m) but on the 1914 OS 6-inch map only as an arc of hachures SE-NW. The E half of the rath has been quarried. The present remains consist of the W half of the rath evident as a raised roughly D-shaped area (dims. c. 15m E-W; straight E side 22m N-S). The straight side is defined by the edge of the quarry face and the remainder by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5m) S-N.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.