Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rockfinlough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfinlough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14331, -8.60857
- SMR number
- SL025-128----
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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 a recently planted coniferous forest, at a break of slope on the S side of a ridge. A subcircular area (26.8m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank SW-SE and by a steep scarp elsewhere. The bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.55m) is incorporated into a field boundary NE-SE and possibly modified along the W arc where it is narrower (Wth 2.6m) than elsewhere. The scarp is densely overgrown with hawthorn bushes. There are gaps in the bank at NW (Wth 2m) and at SE (Wth c. 2m). The interior is grass-covered and slopes gently down to S. Drumdivnagh Lough is c. 100m 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.