Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castlegowan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegowan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.40977, -8.44730
- SMR number
- SL005-016----
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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 ground, on slight rise in gently undulating low-lying wet pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 1.35m) of random limestone rubble. No fosse visible at ground level. A portion of the original external wall facing, made up of un-coursed large limestone flags, survives NNE-E. Modern drystone field walls have been built on top of and along the centre line of the bank E-NNW. The external face of the cashel has been reconstructed to form the rear wall of a small cattle yard, with a small shed and the ruined remains of a house that abuts the external side of the cashel at SE. A modern NW-SE orientated drystone wall links to the modern wall on top of the cashel bank at NW. A break (Wth 1.7m).in the bank at SW marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.