Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mount Town, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mount Town
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11326, -8.29935
- SMR number
- SL034-075----
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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 pasture, on top of the W side of a ridge. A circular area (18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by an eroded earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.9m) with a revetment of stones evident intermittently along the base of the internal face of the bank. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary S-W. A band of rushes (Wth. c. 2m) NW-ESE probably indicates the line of a silted-up external 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.