Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Spotfield, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spotfield
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13981, -8.47628
- SMR number
- SL026-142001-
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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 ridge with excellent views of the surrounding undulating terrain. A raised roughly oval area (c. 37.5m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined ESE-NE by a scarp (H 1.7m ) with an external fosse (Wth c. 5.5m). A possible outer bank is evident S-WSW as a barely discernible flat-topped rise (Wth c. 3m). The outer edge of the fosse W-NW is incorporated into a field boundary (Wth 1.3m; ext. H 0.8m). At NE-E there is a broad causeway (Wth 11m) across the fosse and the interior is flush with the exterior ground level. This is the result of recent modification of the rath but may mask the original entrance. The fosse appears greatly expanded (Wth 8-9m) at SE and NW due to the quarrying of part of the interior platform. A possible rath (SL026-142002-) lies immediately to N.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.