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Ringfort - cashel

Castlegal (Carbury By., Cliffony North ED), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Castlegal, 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
Castlegal (Carbury By., Cliffony North ED)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.45743, -8.40490
SMR number
SL003-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (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

Situated on summit of a narrow NE-SW orientated ridge in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (dims. 25.5m N-S; c. 26m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.55m; T 1.45m). From W-E a second concentric external wall, now beneath a modern drystone field wall (H 0.55, T 0.55m), lies 8m outside the internal wall. There is no trace of a fosse at ground level. The internal wall is made up of un-coursed, un-mortared rubble limestone. Larger blocks of limestone (dims. up to 1.5m by 1.5m) act as basal foundations on the external side of the wall. From NE- E, the internal wall has been removed down to the footings. The original entrance is not recognisable and the breaks at S (Wth 3.5m) and at NNW (Wth 1.2m) appear to be modern. A modern roughly metalled path (Wth 5m) skirts the base of the internal wall S-W. A portion of the NE side of the interior is defined by a NW-SE orientated relic drystone field wall that meets the inner side of the internal wall at N and E.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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