Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountirvine, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountirvine
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01320, -8.56595
- SMR number
- SL039-114----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In rolling pasture, on top of a drumlin, with a sharp fall of ground immediately to S. A circular area (diam. 38m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank E-NW, best preserved to SW and W; the bank has been levelled NW-E. The interior slopes gently down to E and a NW-SE field boundary crosses it. A mound barrow (SL039-113----) lies c. 12m to W and a rath (SL044-002----) c. 110m 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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Carmelite friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.