Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Derrylehan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrylehan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39261, -8.44999
- SMR number
- SL005-064----
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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 at the base of slight hollow on slight SW-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a collapsed wall (T 3.1m; H 1m) of limestone rubble. No fosse visible. Either of the breaks in the wall at W (Wth 3m) or at E (Wth 2.8m) may mark the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.