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Ringfort - cashel

Creggyconnell, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Creggyconnell, 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
Creggyconnell
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.30956, -8.53596
SMR number
SL008-114----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight SW-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Roughly D-shaped area (dims. 17m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a drystone bank of rubble limestone (Wth 1.7m; H 1.7m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The curved section of the wall encloses the site NNE-SW. The wall has been straightened off from SW-NE and from NW-NNE. The straightened sections of the wall have been raised (H 1.7m). The wall of the cashel has been reconstructed on all sides and consists of an un-coursed facing of random rubble with a core of smaller rubble. The original entrance is not recognisable. A modern stile is located midway along the straightened section of the wall at W.

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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