Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Creggyconnell, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggyconnell
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.30956, -8.53596
- SMR number
- SL008-114----
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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
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.