Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortaderry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaderry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.39389, -8.47252
- SMR number
- SL005-055----
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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 in gently undulating pasture 50m to the W of a now derelict farmhouse. Semi-circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by a rubble limestone bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.7m). No fosse visible. The bank encloses the site SSE-NW and has been removed elsewhere. The external base of the bank is revetted with rubble blocks and slabs laid on edge SW-NW. A modern drystone field wall (T 0.75m; H 1.8m) has been built at the inner base of the bank SSE-NW with ENE-WSW orientated field walls linking to the ends of the cashel bank at NW and SSE. Original entrance not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.