Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cully, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cully
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98528, -8.84739
- SMR number
- SL042-003----
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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, on the gentle S-facing slope of a low ridge. An oval area (36 N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-N and by a scarp (H 0.9m) N-SW. An intervening flat-bottomed dry fosse (Wth 7m) is evident SW-S. An outer bank (Wth 2.25m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.2m) is evident NW-SE with a short section surviving along the W arc. The S portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. A N-S field boundary bisects the interior. The inner bank is truncated at W by a N-S hedgerow.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.