Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Powellsborough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Powellsborough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04049, -8.69012
- SMR number
- SL038-077----
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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 flat wet pasture, on the W side of a road. A slightly raised circular area (27.7m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m) E-W and by a scarp elsewhere. The outer bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H 0.2m) is evident SW-W and the intervening fosse (Wth 5.8m; D 1m) is evident all round. The interior is raised c. 0.4m above the external ground level. A field fence and drain cross the centre of the interior on an E-W axis.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.