Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Moneygold, County Sligo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.