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
- 54.13623, -8.60080
- SMR number
- SL025-145----
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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, on a low ridge. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular embanked area (diam. c. 25m). Now evident as a raised irregular area (26.5m N-S; 27.3m E-W) defined by a NE-SW field boundary on NW arc, by a curving field boundary N-ESE and elsewhere by an irregularly curving eroded scarp (H 1.3m). There is a slightly raised central area in the interior from which there is a gentle slope down to W and S and a more marked slope down to E.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.