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Ringfort - cashel

Grange, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Grange, 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
Grange
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.40022, -8.51317
SMR number
SL005-037001-

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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 SE-facing slope in gently undulating elevated pasture. Circular area (dims. 30m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) enclosed by a drystone wall of rubble limestone (Wth 1.4-2m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m). No fosse visible. From NNW-S the wall has collapsed entirely leaving a bank of rubble stone. Only the footings of the wall survive S-W consisting of the basal internal and external blocks with a fill of rubble between. From W-NNW the inner facing (int. H 0.6m) of the wall survives while the external face has collapsed outward. A modern drystone field wall has been built against the external face of the cashel bank ESE-S. A NW-SE orientated field wall crosses the NE side of the interior intersecting with the cashel bank at NNW and at ESE and a NE-SW orientated field wall links to this wall at a right angle and extends to cross the cashel bank at NE. Original entrance not recognisable. A possible souterrain (SL005-037002-) is located to NW of centre in the interior.

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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