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
- 54.04405, -8.61085
- SMR number
- SL038-092001-
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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 the E-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (28.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.6m) SW-NE and by a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere. The bank is topped by an earthen field boundary (H 0.8m) along its outer edge. The interior, which slopes slightly down to E, has been poached by cattle. Two blocked-up openings into a souterrain (SL038-092002-) are visible in the SW quadrant. The W portion of the interior is cut into the hillslope and the E portion is raised c. 1.4m above external ground to compensate for the slope.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.