Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Emlaghnaghtan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emlaghnaghtan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08917, -8.55951
- SMR number
- SL033-116----
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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 rise. A raised circular area (18m N-S; 17.5 E-W) defined by an eroded earthen bank with an external fosse. The bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) is evident all round with small cattle gaps at NW, SSE, SSW and SW. The fosse is evident E-SSW; elsewhere the line of the fosse is marked by a band of dark-coloured grass. The interior is gently undulating and clear of overgrowth. Some hawthorn bushes grow on the bank NE-SW.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.