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Ringfort - cashel

Sheskin, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Sheskin, County Leitrim, 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
Sheskin
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.23685, -8.22965
SMR number
LE015-035001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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