Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sheerevagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheerevagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08859, -8.37458
- SMR number
- SL034-176----
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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 the gentle W-facing slope of a low rise. A D-shaped area (dims. c. 11m NE-SW), the E half of which is cut into the slope. The interior is defined on the straight SW side (L 22m NW-SE) by a field boundary and a road, by a short section of earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) at SE and elsewhere by a stone-faced rising scarp (H 1.5m). Described by Prof. R. A. S. Macalister in 1911, in an unpublished report, as a 'dilapidated fort cut through by the road' (SMR (1989) file). There is a semicircular hollow (diam. c. 12m) to SE.
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
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- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.