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Ringfort - cashel

Mount Temple, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Mount Temple, 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
Mount Temple
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.41466, -8.49382
SMR number
SL005-008----

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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 a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. However it is visible from aerial photographs (ACP V204/100-1). Slightly raised roughly circular area (diam. 20m) defined by a stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.85m). No fosse visible. Original entrance not recognisable.

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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