Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowreilly, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreilly
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11012, -8.63535
- SMR number
- SL032-109----
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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 circular area (21.5m NW-SE) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.98m) WSW-NNE and by a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere. A dry flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.9m) is evident NW-NNE. The interior slopes down gently to SE. The rath is terraced into the hillslope with the N portion of the interior up to 1.45m below and the S portion up to 1.4m above the external ground level. This rath cuts a curving scarp which lies between it and another rath (SL032-108001-) c. 50m to NNW.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.