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Ringfort - rath

Ballysumaghan, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballysumaghan, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballysumaghan
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.17130, -8.38784
SMR number
SL027-047----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a rise, in undulating rough grazing. A raised circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.9; ext. H 1.4m) consists of earth and stone with internal stone-facing. The intervening fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.6m) is evident all round. A wide berm (Wth 5.6m) separates the fosse and outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m). The berm and the outer bank are truncated NNW-NNE by an E-W field boundary. There are gaps in the outer bank at E and NW. A band of boggy ground and rushes (Wth 1.5m), evident only outside the outer bank at SE, may indicate a silted-up outer fosse. Overgrowth covers the perimeter of the rath and partially covers 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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