Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocklough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06046, -8.47184
- SMR number
- SL039-029----
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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. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a bank and fosse W-NE and by a scarp elsewhere with an E-W field boundary crossing the interior and a N-S field boundary truncating the NE perimeter. Remains consist of two arcs of earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.7m; outer bank: int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.05m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 5.9m) W-NE. The S half of the rath has been levelled. The entrance (Wth 1.8m inner bank; Wth 1.9m outer bank) is at N.
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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.