Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullycusheen More, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullycusheen More
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06045, -8.76929
- SMR number
- SL037-009----
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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 top of the W edge of a low rise. A raised circular area (34.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by remains of two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. A low flat-topped inner bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.9m) is evident N-NE, E-SE and SSW-SW with a stone revetment on the internal face N-NE. A flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 8m) is evident S-NE and an outer bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.9m) S-NE. Cultivation ridges are evident in the interior and a grass-covered mound of stones in the centre.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.