Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathbaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12489, -8.57247
- SMR number
- SL033-003----
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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 undulating pasture, on a slight NW-facing slope. The enclosure is visible as a roughly oval area (30m N-S; 40m WNW-ESE) of rough thistle infested ground in an otherwise grassy field. A field boundary with a drain on its N side, both orientated NNW-ESE, abuts this area on the S side. No definite enclosing element could be located. There is no local tradition of a fort here. It is visible in an aerial photograph (IASAP, 3034207-8) as a partially overgrown oval area with pits or hollows in the NE quadrant.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.