Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killoran South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13308, -8.64704
- SMR number
- SL025-115----
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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, on the SE-facing slope of a ridge. A slightly raised roughly circular area (31m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank and a possible external fosse. The bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.1m) is evident all round but along the S arc is low internally (H 0.2m) and substantial (H 1.6m) externally to compensate for the natural slope of the ridge. The bank W-N (Wth 2.8m) has an almost vertical external face with a low step (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) at its base. Several small eroded gaps were noted in the bank including one at E now obscured by gorse. A depression (Wth 4m) noted at N, between the bank and a sharp natural rise of the ridge, may be the remains of a fosse. The interior is covered with thistles and slopes gently down to S and SE. There is a field boundary immediately to NE and a road immediately to SE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.