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Ringfort - cashel

Moneygold, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Moneygold, 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
Moneygold
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.40910, -8.51421
SMR number
SL005-002001-

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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

Situated on level summit of broad E-W orientated ridge. Views are good to excellent in all directions. Raised circular area (diam. 38m) enclosed by the footings of a drystone wall (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.25m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. From ENE-S the site is enclosed by a low bank of rubble limestone and elsewhere by a scarp. The internal and external basal blocks (av. dims. L 1m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.4m; spaced 1.5m apart) of the wall survive S-SW with the external basal blocks surviving ENE-SE and NE-N. The original entrance is not recognisable. A NNE-SSW orientated drystone field wall extends along the base of the scarped edge SW-NW, turns ESE extending 8m into the interior from the cashel wall at NW, turns at a right angle to cross the cashel wall again at NNE.

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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