Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknacross, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknacross
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnagael
- Coordinates
- 54.10830, -8.36644
- SMR number
- SL034-236----
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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 a ridge. An oval area (40m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) NNW-W with two large gaps in the E arc and a 16m wide gap in the S arc. The bank bulges c. 2m into the interior along the N arc. A band of rushes (Wth 3m) along the SW arc may indicate the line of an external silted-up fosse. The interior slopes slightly down to S. A field boundary skirts the W half of the rath.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.