Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carnaweeleen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaweeleen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06826, -8.43038
- SMR number
- SL040-004----
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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 a grassy clearing in a coniferous plantation, on the gentle SSE-facing slope of Kesh Corann. A slightly raised subcircular area (c. 21m N-S; 18m E-W) defined NE-SE by slight rise and SE-SW by a broadly slumped scarp (H 0.7m). Elsewhere the enclosing element is less obvious and at N it appears to be truncated by a forestry trench. The interior slopes gently down to S and is covered in rough grass and bisected by several E-W forestry drills. Trees are planted right up to the edge of the enclosure. An external fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.3m), noted along the E arc in 1993 (SMR (1989) file), is no longer evident. There is a barrow (SL040-003001-) and a circular enclosure (SL040-003002-) c. 40m to N. A hut site (SL040-005----) lies c. 50m to 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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.