Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laughil, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughil
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12725, -8.73846
- SMR number
- SL032-001----
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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 lower southern slopes of the Ox Mountains. A circular area (diam. 24m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.1m), with large stones incorporated into it, SSE-ESE. An external flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.4m) is evident WSW-NW. Numerous gaps occur in the bank. The remains of a drystone wall tops the bank along the NW arc. The S portion of the level interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope.
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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.