Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A roughly oval area (64m N-S; 58m E-W) defined by remains of three earthen banks with intervening and external fosses. The inner bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.4m) is evident only W-NW, elsewhere the interior is defined by a scarp (H 0.5m). The middle bank (Wth 9m; H 0.6m) is evident SW-N and E-SE and the outer bank (Wth 6.5m; H 0.3m) is evident SW-NW with a short section also at SE. The inner fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.3m) is evident all round while the middle fosse (Wth 6.5m) is evident only SE-NW. The outer fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 1.4m) is boggy and evident SW-NW. Cultivation ridges were noted in the level interior. An ENE-WSW field boundary crosses the rath. Another field boundary (on a N-S axis) clips the edge of the outer fosse at W and another (also on a N-S axis) to E is on the line of the outer bank.

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