Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leitrim South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitrim South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04987, -8.68368
- SMR number
- SL038-046----
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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
On a NW-facing slope, in an area overgrown with bushes. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m). Only the E half now remains, visible as a raised semicircular area (25m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1m) NE-S. A dry external fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.6m) is evident E-S and a band of boggy ground (Wth 4m) along the NE arc may indicate a silted-up fosse. The interior is raised c. 0.8m above the external ground level. The W half of this rath has been removed by quarrying.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.