Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carraun (leyny By., Banada Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carraun (leyny By., Banada Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04413, -8.84350
- SMR number
- SL037-028----
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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
On a gentle E-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.1m) with numerous gaps. An external flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 6.7m; D 1.25m) is evident SW-NW; a band of rushes NW-N may indicate the line of the silted-up fosse. The E portion of the interior is raised and the W portion is cut into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. The rath is overgrown with bushes. A souterrain (SL037-105----) lies c. 30m to SSW.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.