Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Quarryfield, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quarryfield
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04764, -8.61453
- SMR number
- SL038-063----
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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 undulating pasture, on a low rise. A raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by remains of an earthen bank (Wth 5.3m; int. H 1.1m) with numerous gaps and by an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.5m). A short stretch of the foundations of a drystone wall is visible on top of the bank along the N arc. The interior is heavily poached by cattle and raised c. 1.5m above external ground level and has a small pile of stones in the centre. The bank and fosse are overgrown with bushes.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.