Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Srananagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Srananagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.16979, -8.39677
- SMR number
- SL027-040----
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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 poorly drained rough grazing, on top of the E end of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 27.5m) enclosed by an eroded earth and stone bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) SE-NE and truncated by a field boundary at E. An external fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.8m) is evident S-NW, marked by a dense growth of rushes. A field boundary immediately outside the bank at N probably truncated the fosse. The interior is level and overgrown with rushes. The perimeter of the rath is overgrown with gorse bushes. Another rath (SL027-041----) lies c. 60m to SSE.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.