Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooskirt, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooskirt
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.15608, -8.37994
- SMR number
- SL027-073----
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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. A roughly circular area (diam. 32m) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m) W-SSE. The interior is truncated by a field boundary and trackway at SW. Slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m) are evident NW-NNE. An arc of a possible second fosse NW-SE visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 291-0) c. 10m outside the inner fosse, is not visible at ground level.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 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.