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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11396, -8.63301
- SMR number
- SL032-058----
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 the S-facing slope of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (25.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) SW-SE and by a scarp (H 1.6m) elsewhere. There are numerous gaps in the bank. The S portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope, however the interior retains a gentle slope down to the SE.
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
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.