Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rockfinlough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfinlough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13670, -8.60792
- SMR number
- SL025-141----
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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 top of a NE-SW ridge. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Now evident as a roughly rectangular raised area (17.2m NE-SW; 24m NW-SE) defined on the NW and NE sides by an earthen bank with a slight internal lip (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.75m), on the SE side by a linear field boundary and on the SW side by a scarp (H 0.7m) which merges at its NW end with a linear field boundary. A rath (SL025-140----) lies c. 30m 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.