Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooperhill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooperhill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13370, -8.42112
- SMR number
- SL027-116----
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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 raised circular area (30m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse (Wth 4m). The inner bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) is faced with stones internally. The outer bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.8m) is stone-faced in parts externally, incorporated into a field boundary along the S arc, levelled along the NE and E arcs with only a low rise remaining. The inner bank is quarried into for a length of 7m and 8m along NE and E arcs respectively. Some beech trees grow on the bank and in 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
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.