Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloghboley, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboley
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissgallon
- Coordinates
- 54.34337, -8.60588
- SMR number
- SL007-021001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge in good pasture with excellent views. Circular slightly raised area (int. diam. 26m) enclosed by a high stone wall with earthen fill. The interior has a number of mounds and depressions. At SE is a depression (L 4m; Wth 2m) and on the N side is a mound running parallel to the wall (L 5.9m; Wth 1.2m). No indication of a fosse or entrance. In the NW part of the wall is the entrance to a souterrain (SL007-021002-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 14 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.