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Ringfort - rath

Sessuecommon, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Sessuecommon, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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