Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Church Hill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Hill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07386, -8.61533
- SMR number
- SL032-196----
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 lower W-facing slope of a rise above bog. An arc of a scarp (max. H 1m) SE-SW, as indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, encloses the N corner of field, an area measuring 26m NE-SW by 11.5m NW-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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.