Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknakillew Or Woodhill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknakillew Or Woodhill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05857, -8.57017
- SMR number
- SL039-005----
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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 damp ground, near the base of a drumlin ridge, overlooking a stream. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 54m N-S; 52.6m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 2.1m). The bank is densely overgrown with bushes and the entrance (Wth 0.85m) is at S. The interior is uneven and slopes down to S. The function of three stretches of discontinuous sod-covered walling in the interior is uncertain.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.