Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigans Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigans Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10169, -8.50358
- SMR number
- SL033-059001-
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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 rocky pasture, on top of a natural hillock. A roughly oval area (14m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) NNW-NE, by a scarp (H 0.6m) NE-S and NW-NNW and by a steep natural slope (H 3.5m) S-NW. For a short section along the S arc there is no enclosing element visible. There is a possible entrance (Wth 4m) at NE. The grass-covered interior is undulating with many rocks close to the surface. There is a souterrain (SL033-059002-) in the SW 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.