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
- 53.98305, -8.78134
- SMR number
- SL042-021001-
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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 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.