Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Highwood, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Highwood
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07893, -8.27482
- SMR number
- SL035-084----
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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 a W-facing slope, surrounded by field boundaries. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 16.3m x 17.3m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening and external fosses. A sod-covered inner bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.9m) drops 1.2m to the base of the intervening fosse (Wth 2m). An outer bank (Wth 3.9m; ext. H 1.35m), which drops 0.55m to the base of the intervening fosse, has numerous gaps and a possible entrance (Wth 3m) at SW, with a causeway across the fosse. The external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m) is silt-filled and is best evident along the W arc. A field boundary has been built against the external side of the outer bank along the E arc.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.