Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lislahelly, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislahelly
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.33747, -8.43941
- SMR number
- SL009-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Straddling summit of narrow E-W orientated ridge in gently undulating rocky upland pasture. Raised oval area (27m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed by a wall of random limestone rubble (T 1.25m; int. H 1.05m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The wall encloses the site SW-NE and appears to have been rebuilt as a field wall. The gable (Wth 4m) of a now derelict modern farmhouse extends just beyond the inner line of the removed cashel wall NE-ENE. From E-SW the wall is absent except for the footings (Wth 2.4m) at the level of the interior. The external basal facing of the wall has been rebuilt E-SW. A ramp (Wth 6m), widened in modern times, from the platform at E marks the position of the original entrance. The central one-third of the interior is level while the N one-third slopes slightly facing N and the S one-third slopes slightly facing S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.