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
- 54.10074, -8.48875
- SMR number
- SL033-072----
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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 a broad rise on a slight NNE-facing slope. A roughly circular raised area (28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.3m) with a slight internal lip (H 0.35m) SE-NW, by an earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) NW-N and by a field boundary NE-SE. A WSW-ENE field boundary is built 1m outside the external base of the bank NW-N and it is possible that this section of bank is not an original feature but the result of disturbance to the edge of the interior during construction of the field boundary. There is an entrance at W consisting of a ramp (Wth 3m) with a causeway across the fosse. An external fosse (D 0.2m) is evident SE-NW. The interior slopes slightly down to NE and is dry and clear of overgrowth.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.