Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killaraght, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaraght
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93130, -8.38032
- SMR number
- SL047-068----
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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 a gentle slope towards the W end of, and occupying almost the full width of, a narrow ridge. A slightly raised roughly D-shaped area (dims. 24.6m N-S; 32m E-W) defined SW-SE by an eroded bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1m) and on the straight S side by a poorly defined scarp (H 0.3m) which merges into the natural slope. There is a break (Wth 7.5m) in the bank at NNW. An external fosse, indicated by a band of irises (Wth c. 3.5m) in waterlogged ground, is evident intermittently W-E. The interior slopes slightly down to W; the E half is covered with rushes and irises. Indicated as an embanked circular area on the 1914 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.