Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Creevykeel, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevykeel
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.44228, -8.43511
- SMR number
- SL003-026----
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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
On a level terrace located on the N side of a NE-SW orientated ridge, in pasture. The cashel consists of a slightly raised roughly circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m) of random limestone rubble. There is no fosse visible at ground level. From W-NE, the bank is absent on the N side of a NE-SW orientated drystone field wall that crosses the site. Where the bank is absent, the limit of the cashel is visible as a darker band of grass (Wth 3m). The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.