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Ringfort - cashel

Cregg, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cregg, 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
Cregg
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.31242, -8.51586
SMR number
SL008-121----

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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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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