Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynaraw South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaraw South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05256, -8.61128
- SMR number
- SL038-066----
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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 top of the N edge of a low rise. A raised circular area (38m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.9m) WNW-ESE and by a scarp elsewhere. An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 8.7m; D 1.35m) is evident E-WSW. There is an entrance (Wth c. 4m) at SE with a causeway across the fosse. The remains of a denuded outer earthen bank (int. H c. 1m) were noted during a previous inspection in 1987 (SMR (1989) file). The interior is raised c. 1.4m above the external ground level. The road indicated on 1838 OS 6-inch map immediately to N of the rath no longer survives.
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 - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.