Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sessuegarry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sessuegarry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07281, -8.81956
- SMR number
- SL031-046----
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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 flat land c. 150m N of the River Moy. A slightly raised circular area (35m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 1m) NNW-SW and by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) SW-NNW. An external dry fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.8m) is evident SW-NW; elsewhere a band of rushes (Wth 3m) may indicate the line of a silted-up fosse. The interior is crossed by a hedgerow on a NW-SE axis. Some quarrying has occurred in the fosse at W. This rath was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map with seven evenly spaced deciduous trees outside its perimeter. A boggy depression a short distance to SE is, according to local information, a silted-up well.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.