Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castlegal (carbury By., Cliffony North Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.