Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killoran North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13735, -8.63871
- SMR number
- SL025-113----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, at a break of the S-facing slope of a low rise. A raised roughly circular area (32.6m E-W; 34.3m N-S) defined by a low scarp (H 0.9m) NNW-E and elsewhere by a scarp (H 1.5m) enhanced by the natural slope of the rise. A gap (Wth 2.2m) at NE gives machinery access to the interior. The interior slopes gently down to S and SW even though the S portion has been raised to compensate for the hillslope. The external slope of the scarp is quarried into at N and S and overgrown with bushes SE-SW. Immediately outside the scarp at SW, a slight depression (Wth c. 2.7m), bordered on its external side by a low rise (Wth c. 3.7m) which merges into the natural slope, can be traced through overgrowth for c. 8m. A road lies immediately to SW.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.