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Ringfort - rath

Falleens, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Falleens, 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
Falleens
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.95488, -8.45913
SMR number
SL046-008----

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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)
  • 1811 · 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 poorly drained rough pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope, close to the shore of Lough Gara; a disused railway line lies immediately to E. A slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 29.7m N-S; min. 25m E-W) defined on the straight E side by a vertical scarp (H 1.8m) resulting from truncation during the construction of the railway line, S-SW by a curving earth and stone bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.05m), SW-NW mainly by a scarp (H 0.6m) with a low internal rim in places, NW-N by a slumped bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.45m) and N-NE by a scarp (H 0.75m). A slight depression (Wth c. 3m) outside the bank SSW-SW and another NNW-N, marked by damp ground and rushes, may indicate the line of an external fosse. The interior slopes down gently from the centre to NE, has slight traces of cultivation ridges and is crossed by a NNE-SSW field boundary wall.

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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