Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cregg, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.31242, -8.51586
- SMR number
- SL008-121----
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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 N-facing slope, in elevated gently undulating pasture. Originally circular but now comprises a D-shaped area (dims. 20m N-S; 16m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall of rubble limestone (T 1.65m; H 0.7m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The cashel wall has been entirely rebuilt as field wall SE-NE. The original footings of the wall, made up of larger limestone blocks, are visible at the base of the wall SW-NE. From NE-SE the cashel wall has been removed and the current edge of the site is defined by a straight N-S orientated drystone field wall. A WSW-ENE orientated field wall of large boulders links to the outside of the cashel wall at SW. The original entrance is not recognisable. The footings of a drystone wall (L 8m; Wth 1m; H 0.2m) extend from the inner face of the cashel wall at N across the interior in a SSE direction.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.