Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardrea, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrea
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09910, -8.47523
- SMR number
- SL033-101----
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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 top of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.6m). There is an entrance (Wth 1m) at E with causeway across the fosse. The damp interior is divided by a N-S field boundary.
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
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.