Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bunnacranagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunnacranagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99356, -8.78748
- SMR number
- SL042-012----
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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
On the lower W-facing slope of a rise. A circular area (23.5m N-S; 24m E-W ) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; max. H 1.4m) E-SSW and by a scarp W-E. The enclosing element along the N half of the rath is levelled and barely visible, while along the SW arc it is heavily poached. The enclosing bank is shown as surviving from W-S on the 1911 OS 6-inch map. The interior is slightly terraced into the slope with the E half up to 0.3m below, and the W half up to 0.3m above, the external ground level. An E-W field boundary crosses the interior.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.