Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownloughan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownloughan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13263, -8.66587
- SMR number
- SL025-100----
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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 rough pasture, on a narrow level area below the summit of a ridge. A raised oval area (24.7m NE-SW; 29.8m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.3m) with an external fosse. There is an entrance (Wth 2.7m) at NE and numerous eroded gaps along the N and E arcs. The fosse is only evident S-W as a very shallow depression (Wth 2.8m; D 0.3m) marked by rushes. The interior slopes gently down to E and NE and is overgrown with thistles and rushes.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.