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
- 54.01055, -8.54250
- SMR number
- SL044-006001-
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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 top of the ESE end of a ridge and 15m W of another rath (SL044-006003-). A raised roughly circular area (33.6m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.45m) with a slight internal lip NW-E and elsewhere by a scarp. An external fosse is evident NW-N as a shallow depression (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 0.3m) marked by rushes and irises and N-NE by rushes and irises only. The interior slopes slightly down to S and there is a possible souterrain (SL044-006002-) in the W half. There is a low slumped section (Wth 2-2.5m) in the scarp at S, now blocked by the post and wire fence that tops the perimeter NE-W. Breaks also occur at ESE (Wth 1.5m) and at WSW (Wth 1.4m).
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.