Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glennawoo, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennawoo
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06559, -8.90137
- SMR number
- SL036-011----
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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 grazing, on a break in an E-facing slope of the Ox Mountains. A slightly raised circular area (26m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.9m) with numerous cattle gaps. The external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.3m) is evident along the NW and ENE arcs, with the N arc only visible as boggy ground outlined by rushes. The entrance (Wth 1.1m) is at NE, revetted by large stones. The grass-covered interior slopes gently down to NE and is broken by rock outcrop in places. A WNW-ESE field boundary bisects the interior. A drain extends downhill to E from the fosse at NE.
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
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.