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
- Caltragh Fort
- Coordinates
- 54.10193, -8.37527
- SMR number
- SL034-094----
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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, at the base of the gentle SE-facing slope of a ridge and to W of a bend in the Arrow or Unshin River. A circular area (36m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.3m) NW-SE. A curved field boundary and trackway replace the bank SE-SW. A N-S field boundary truncates the W edge of the rath. There is a possible entrance (Wth 3m) in the N arc. In the NE quadrant of the level interior is a subcircular platform (H 0.6m; diam. 14m) extending inwards from the enclosing bank. The rath is 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.