Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Finlough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finlough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13366, -8.61683
- SMR number
- SL025-136----
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, straddling a break of an E-facing slope of a narrow ridge overlooking Fin Lough to SE. A slightly raised oval area (58.6m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank N-E, by a scarp E-S and by a curving field boundary (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) S-N. The bank is evident only as a low rise (Wth c. 3m; H 0.15m). The scarp is highest (H 1.3m) E-SE, elsewhere it merges with the steep natural slope of the ridge. The interior slopes from the centre down to S and E and is level elsewhere. At N, close to the enclosing field boundary, a roughly circular area (diam. 7.5m; D 0.8m) has been quarried away.
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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.