Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sessuecommon, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sessuecommon
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09460, -8.82340
- SMR number
- SL031-018002-
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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 a coniferous plantation, on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains; the ground slopes down steeply to E and S. A circular area (23.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.2m) which is revetted on the inner face by a drystone wall. An external flat-bottomed dry fosse (Wth 5.4m) with a counterscarp bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.4m) is evident SSW-NW. There is a flat terrace (Wth 4m; H 1.1m) along the external side of the bank E-SSW. The interior slopes gently down to S and is planted with trees and crossed by a recently dug forest drain. Another forest drain lies immediately to N and trees have also been planted in the fosse. A mound barrow (SL031-018001-) lies immediately to N.
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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.