Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rockbrook, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockbrook
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14344, -8.34983
- SMR number
- SL027-113----
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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 rough pasture, on top of a ridge. This rath is levelled and the remains consist of a slightly raised circular area (diam. 18m E-W) enclosed by a scarp (max. H 0.9m) except along the S arc where it is truncated by a field boundary and drain giving a dimension of 14m N-S. A shallow external fosse (Wth 2m) is marked by a growth of rushes. Named 'Taugheny's Fort' (OSNB vol. 1, 126).
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.