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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10673, -8.74468
- SMR number
- SL031-008----
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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 summit of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (26.8m N-S; 28.5m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m) W-N and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. An external flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 6.5m) is evident SW-NW with a counterscarp bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 0.4m) evident WNW-NNW. The entrance (Wth 3m), with a ramp up from the fosse, is at W. The interior slopes slightly down to E. A field boundary skirts the rath SSW-NW.
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.