Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyara Or Falduff, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyara Or Falduff
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05409, -8.75035
- SMR number
- SL037-045----
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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 S-facing slope of a rise. A circular area (diam. 26.5m) enclosed by a grass-covered collapsed drystone wall (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m). The S half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope while the N half is cut into the upslope.
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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.