Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfahy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfahy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04319, -8.56202
- SMR number
- SL039-049----
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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 the E-facing slope of a low drumlin; closely enclosed by four field boundaries at NE, SE, SW and NW. A raised circular area (int. diam. 30m N-S; 28.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m) along the E arc and by a scarp elsewhere. The interior, which slopes down to E, is partially quarried into at W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.