Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12009, -8.34919
- SMR number
- SL034-046----
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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 rough poorly drained pasture, at the base of a S-facing slope and on the N bank of a stream. A circular area (23m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.5m) W-E and by a scarp (H 1.4m) E-W. The stream flows along the base of the heavily denuded scarp along the S arc. A band of rushes (Wth 2m) probably indicates the line of a silted-up external fosse W-E. The interior slopes down from N to S.
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.