Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derreens, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreens
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10695, -8.74779
- SMR number
- SL031-007----
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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 the N-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (36.5m N-S; 36.5m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m). The N portion is raised c. 0.7m to compensate for the hillslope. Traces of an external facing of drystone walling are evident in places; cattle gaps were noted at N and S. The interior slopes gently down to N. Hawthorn bushes grow on the bank. A trackway approaches the rath from NW and skirts the W half of it.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.