Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sheskin, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheskin
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23685, -8.22965
- SMR number
- LE015-035001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the bottom of a W-facing slope in a coniferous forest. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 27m N-S) which remains unplanted defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.7-3m; max. H 1m) with the intermittently visible facing-stones of a wall (at S: Wth 2m). There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.8m) at SE, and a rectangular house site (int. dims 7.3m x 1.7m) is attached to the outer face of the perimeter at NE. The material of the perimeter has been robbed ESE-SE and accumulated as a cairn against the inner face of the wall SE-S. A collapsed souterrain is visible at the centre as a sunken area (dims. 4m x 2m) with some stone defining its edge.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.