Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Aughris (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughris (corran By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06847, -8.54372
- SMR number
- SL039-012002-
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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. The remains of a possible structure are evident in the W half of the interior of Aughris rath (SL039-012001-). It consists of two parallel rubble stone walls (on a N-S axis), c. 6m apart. The W wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.4m) measures 13.1m in length and the E wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.75m) is 11.9m in length.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.