Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Abbeyville Or Ardlaherty, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyville Or Ardlaherty
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05758, -8.48843
- SMR number
- SL039-022----
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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 top of a drumlin, with a commanding view. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 32m N-S; 28.9m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.6m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.3m). A drain has been dug along the inside of the bank on the E side where the bank is incorporated into a field boundary. The entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at S with a causeway across the fosse. The interior is slightly concave and slopes down gently to S.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.