Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greyfield (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greyfield (corran By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03019, -8.49327
- SMR number
- SL039-100----
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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 rough pasture, on top of a drumlin. A raised circular area (int. diam. 29.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) except along the E arc where it is truncated by a field boundary, reducing the E-W dimension of the interior to 18.6m. The entrance (Wth 2.6m) is at NW with remains of an external ramp (L 4.1m). The interior is level. A section of an earthen field boundary is built against the external face of the bank along the W arc.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.