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
- 54.00801, -8.55789
- SMR number
- SL044-008----
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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 waterlogged pasture, on top of a drumlin ridge. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 24.7m N-S; 26.8m E-W) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.6m) with a silted-up external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.1m) evident along the N arc. The interior is uneven and waterlogged and slopes down to N. The W edge of the rath is truncated by a NNW-SSE field boundary. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 32m) not truncated by any field boundary.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.