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Ringfort - rath

Bunnacranagh, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Bunnacranagh, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Bunnacranagh
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.98305, -8.78134
SMR number
SL042-021001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level grassland, which slopes steeply down to S from the S edge of the rath. A raised circular area (35.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse, which in turn is framed by a linear field boundary to E and S and by a concentric field boundary S-NE. The inner bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m) is evident all round. The intervening flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6.5m) is evident all round except at SE. The base of the fosse is mainly 0.3m below the external ground level except at the S where the ground falls away sharply from the edge of rath. An outer bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) survives in parts, with the outer face truncated along the E arc by a N-S field boundary. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at ENE. There is a souterrain (SL042-021002-) in 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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