Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilturra, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilturra
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Aughris Fort
- Coordinates
- 54.03067, -8.60100
- SMR number
- SL038-119002-
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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 a drumlin. An arc formed by a scarp NE-SSE and by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7m) with an external fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 0.1m) SSE-SW encloses an area (dims. 25.3m N-S; 33m E-W) at the NW corner of a field (Pl. 36). This appears to be remains of a rath which has been truncated by the field boundaries at N and NW. There are no visible remains of the rath in the field to the N. A conjoined rath (SL038-119001-) lies on the opposite side of the field boundary at NW.
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
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.