Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leitrim North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitrim North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10289, -8.74854
- SMR number
- SL031-010001-
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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 low ridge. A raised circular area (34m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m). An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.7m) is evident S-W and a band of rushes (Wth 5m) probably indicates the line of the fosse W-NE. A hole has been dug into the scarp face at NW. Cultivation ridges are evident in the interior. There is a souterrain (SL031-010002-) to W of centre. The rath is covered by grass and some hawthorn bushes. A field boundary skirts the fosse S-WSW.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.