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
- 54.12963, -8.67095
- SMR number
- SL025-101----
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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, built into the steep N-facing slope of a ridge. An oval area (17m E-W; 25.8m N-S) defined by a scarp which is highest (H 1.65m) W-E and low elsewhere. A shallow fosse is evident S-NW, accompanied S-SW by a slight external rise and at W by a short section of an upstanding stony bank (L 3m; Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m). Outside the scarp NW-NE the natural slope has been terraced (Wth 3.3m; H 1.6m). A field boundary shown on the 1914 OS 6-inch map abutting the rath at E has been levelled and a quarry has been dug close by to NE.
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 - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.