Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyara (knox), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyara (knox)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05540, -8.74752
- SMR number
- SL037-046001-
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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 level ground on to top of broad low hill and within the W half of an enclosure (SL037-04602-). A slightly raised circular area (diam. 32m) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.5m) with a slight internal lip. A field boundary (NW-SE) truncates the NE edge. There are traces of cultivation ridges in the level interior. A shallow crescent-shaped depression (c. 16m NNW-SSE; 5.5m ENE-WSW; D c. 0.3m), possibly the result of quarrying, abuts the rath at W.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.