Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbreenagher, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbreenagher
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13330, -8.33276
- SMR number
- SL027-154----
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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, below the summit of a ridge on a S-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 49m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.5m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 4m). The bank is faced with stone internally along the N, E and S arcs. A short section of bank and fosse is disturbed along the E arc. The interior slopes gently down to S, is overgrown with rushes and bisected by a low E-W field boundary wall. A field boundary skirts the fosse E-S.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.