Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Riverstown, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Riverstown
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01362, -8.51216
- SMR number
- SL039-122002-
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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, at the N end of a drumlin ridge. A semicircular slightly raised annexe (int. diam. 22.2m N-S; 20.6m E-W) adjoins the W side of Riverstown rath (SL039-122001-). The interior is defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m).
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.