Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bellanascarrow West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellanascarrow West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08896, -8.49702
- SMR number
- SL033-096----
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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 low-lying ground to S of a river. This possible rath is levelled and is not visible at ground level though there are some undulations in the field. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 267-8) as a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a band of dark-coloured vegetation, probably representing a fosse.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.