Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rue, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rue
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04225, -8.76532
- SMR number
- SL037-051001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a low rise. A raised oval area (int. diam. 40m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) SE-E with numerous gaps and by a scarp (H 1.7m) E-SE. The bank is topped NE-E by a drystone field boundary wall and at NW by the foundations of a stone wall. The interior slopes gently down to NE. There is a souterrain (SL037-051002-) in the SW quadrant.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.