Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Eskragh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskragh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02892, -8.77895
- SMR number
- SL037-075----
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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 a low rise. A slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 36.2m N-S; 32.6m to E) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.4m). An external flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.9m) is evident SSE-NE. Bank linear along W and N sides where field boundaries (on N-S and E-W axes) are adjacent to W and N. Other field boundaries extend from the rath to NE, E, SE and SW. The edge of the rath is covered with overgrowth. A rath (SL037-074001-) lies c. 100m to WNW.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.