Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claragh Irish, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh Irish
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11538, -8.64196
- SMR number
- SL032-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level ground on the lower S slopes of a ridge. An arc (C c. 35m) formed by a scarp (H 0.5m) SSE-NW abuts a modern field fence (on an E-W axis) at N and a hedgerow (on a N-S axis) at E. A second hedgerow (on an E-W axis) abuts the N-S hedgerow, extends across the S portion of the interior and through to the scarp at SW. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) truncated to E and S by a lane. The arc of the W scarp is hachured on the 1914 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.