Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Creevykeel, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevykeel
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.44040, -8.43362
- SMR number
- SL003-029----
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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
On N slope of a limestone ridge. This possible cashel was first recorded by Oliver Davies in the early 1940’s. His field report records ‘about half a cashel wall remains, faced with rough fairly large stones outside and small stones inside. It survives to almost 4ft [1.2m] high. It is rather ruinous and the top may have been rebuilt; the inner face is rather better preserved than outer. Thickness about 5 ft [1.5m]. West side entirely removed. Apparently circular, int. diam. c. 21 yds. [19m]’ (NMI Topographical Files). An inspection in 1991 recorded an arc of wall (Wth 0.6-0.8m; int. H c. 2m; ext. H 1.75m) of irregular boulders, curving NE−SE, largely obscured by overgrowth, but no trace of an enclosure was found during an inspection in 2003 (SMR files).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 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.