Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cabraghkeel, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cabraghkeel
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pollacheeny Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pollacheeny Fort
- Coordinates
- 54.26478, -9.06171
- SMR number
- SL010-009001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low rise in lowlying pasture, c. 50m from the rocky shoreline on the E side of Killala Bay. Raised subcircular area (25m E-W; 20.2m N-S) enclosed by a levelled bank. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Within the internal area is a depression marking the site of a collapsed souterrain (SL010-009002-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.