Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Colgagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Colgagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27925, -8.40882
- SMR number
- SL015-033----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the level summit of an elongated E-W orientated rocky hillock, in small deciduous wood, surrounded by undulating pasture. The monument is located on the E side of the summit with natural ground level falling away steeply N-SSE. Circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by a low bank of rubble limestone (Wth 2.7m; H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank is best preserved where the external base is revetted with rubble limestone blocks S-NW. From NW-S the bank is denuded and is very low in profile. A break (Wth 1.1m) in the bank at WSW marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.