Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moylough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moylough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01575, -8.68875
- SMR number
- SL038-112001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a gentle N-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 21.5m) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m). A fosse is indicated SSW-NNW on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map but is not now evident. The interior slopes down slightly to N. A hollow (3m x 3m; D 0.1m) immediately N of the centre of the interior may indicate a possible souterrain (SL038-112002-). The 8th-century Moylough belt shrine was found in a turf bog, c. 250m to E, in 1945 and is now in the NMI (Youngs 1989, 59).
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.