Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacarrow North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarrow North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14159, -8.56072
- SMR number
- SL026-120002-
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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 level pasture, close to a break of slope. The middle of three conjoined raths (see SL026-120001- and SL026-120003-) in a NE-SW row. A slightly raised subcircular area (30.3m NNW-SSE; 24m E-W) defined S-N by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m), by a discrete section of bank at E and by a slight scarp E-S. The slightly sunken remnants of a NW-SE trackway truncates the NE arc of the rath. The trackway, bordered on the NE side by a field fence, also truncates the interface between this rath and the adjoining rath (SL026-120003-) immediately to NE. The interior is level with traces of ridge and furrow cultivation on a NW-SE axis.
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.