Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooperhill Or Gobbadagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooperhill Or Gobbadagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.16461, -8.46185
- SMR number
- SL026-079----
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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 low-lying wet ground, surrounded by reeds. A circular area (int. diam. 31m) enclosed by two earthen banks and intervening and external fosses. The inner bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.1m) drops 1.6m to the base of the intervening fosse (Wth 5.5m). The outer bank (Wth 3.5m) drops 1m to the base of the external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.3m). A possible entrance (Wth c. 1.6m) is at SW. A trench (Wth 2m) extends NE-SW across the interior.
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
- Enclosureunder 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.