Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumraine (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumraine (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10380, -8.37750
- SMR number
- SL034-092----
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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 S-facing slope. A raised circular area (24m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.95m) SW-SE and elsewhere by a scarp. The entrance is via a ramp (Wth 1.4m) at SSE, revetted with a line of stones (L 3.4m; H 0.2m) on the W side. A N-S field boundary abuts the external face of the bank at W. The fosse (D 0.4m) is evident NE-SE and is infilled elsewhere. There is a field boundary along the outer edge of the infilled fosse N-NE. A small quarry (5m N-S; 7m E-W; D 0.9m), now disused, is in the infilled fosse at S. The interior is level and raised to compensate for the hillslope. The N half of the rath is densely covered with overgrowth.
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
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.