Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lavally (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lavally (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18217, -8.34081
- SMR number
- SL027-016001-
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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 poorly drained pasture, on the NE-facing slope of a ridge and completely surrounded by field boundaries. A raised circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 6.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.9m) has internal stone facing. The fosse is mostly infilled, boggy and supports a growth of rushes and is truncated by a field boundary SE-SW. The outer bank (Wth 6.8m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.9m) is evident NE-SE and SW-NW, truncated by a field boundary SE-SW and possibly at N. There is a stoned-faced entrance (Wth 2.6m) through the inner bank at NNE. There is a possible souterrain (SL027-016002-) in the N half of 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
- Souterrainunder 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.