Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claragh Scotch, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh Scotch
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12471, -8.62514
- SMR number
- SL032-027----
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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 knoll on the summit of a rise. A roughly circular area (22.5m N-S; 25.5m E-W) raised a max. of 3.5m above the surrounding ground level. The edge of the interior is defined by the remains of grass-covered foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.3m). A dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m) surrounds the raised interior, 2.7m below the top of the bank, and in turn is defined by a counterscarp bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m). There is a ramped entrance at SW. The interior slopes gently down to S. The rath is partially overgrown with hawthorn and the remainder is heavily poached by cattle. Field boundaries respect the rath to W, N and E.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.