Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbrack (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (leyny By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnambruic
- Coordinates
- 54.01471, -8.92670
- SMR number
- SL036-060----
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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 lower southern slopes of a ridge. This rath has been levelled; a circular area (diam. c. 23m) terraced into the hillslope, with the N portion up to 1m below and the S portion up to c. 1.9m above the external ground level. Indicated on the 1938 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 20m) and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a hachured arc (diam. c. 25m) forming a scarp E-NW, surrounded on three sides (E, S and W) by field boundaries, at the S end of a narrow field (Wth 30m).
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.