Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carraun (leyny By., Tobercurry Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carraun (leyny By., Tobercurry Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08403, -8.72918
- SMR number
- SL032-132----
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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 W-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (32m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a field boundary NE-SE, by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) SE-SW and by a scarp (H 0.7m) SW-NE. A flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.2m) is evident SE-NW. The rath is truncated by the townland boundary along the NE arc on the 1838 and 1914 OS 6-inch maps.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.