Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moytirra West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moytirra West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08185, -8.29328
- SMR number
- SL035-074----
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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 undulating rocky pasture. A slightly raised roughly circular area (34m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.8m) SSE-N and by a slight scarp N-E.The bank has been replaced by a drystone wall E-SSE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. A relict field boundary (L 20m; Wth top 0.8m; Wth base 2m; H 0.4m) abuts the external face of the bank at S and a drystone field wall abuts the bank at N.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.