Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortygara, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortygara
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01290, -8.54915
- SMR number
- SL044-005----
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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 low-lying wet ground with views restricted by the surrounding higher ground. A slightly raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 25.7m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank, highest along the W arc (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m), which is degraded (int. H 0.2m to E) and levelled in places along the E arc. A waterlogged area surrounding the bank externally probably indicates a silted-up fosse. Numerous cattle gaps occur in the bank as well as a possible entrance at E. The waterlogged interior rises towards the centre and is overgrown with rushes.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.