Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathbaun South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbaun South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03195, -8.58400
- SMR number
- SL039-081----
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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 a SW-facing slope, close to the top of a drumlin. A raised circular area (int. diam. 25.2m N-S; 23.6m E-W) defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.4m), an intervening fosse (Wth 6.3m) and an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 0.9m). There is a stone-faced entrance (Wth 7.6m and 3.7m respectively) through the inner and outer banks at S, with a causeway (Wth 9.6m) across the fosse. The interior is concave and slopes down to SW.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.