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
- 54.03871, -8.61924
- SMR number
- SL038-088----
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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, to NE of a road, on the steep NW-facing slope of a drumlin. This rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 70m). By the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map only the E half of the rath remained, indicated by an arc of bank NNE-S with an external fosse E-S. The W half was probably removed during the construction of the adjacent road. Another rath (SL038-087----) lies c. 50m to N.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.