Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhealy Or Hollybrook Demesne, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhealy Or Hollybrook Demesne
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06407, -8.35284
- SMR number
- SL040-038----
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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 forestry, near the top of a SE-facing slope and overlooking Lough Arrow to the E. A raised circular area (int. diam. 19m x 20m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.75m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.7m). The interior is level. The rath is planted with trees.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.