Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynamona, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27255, -8.34697
- SMR number
- SL015-068----
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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
Situated near NW end of level summit of a NW-SE orientated ridge in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.65m; int. H 0.5m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 3.5m) and an external bank (Wth 2.95m; int. H 0.7m). From ESE-SW the internal bank and the fosse are almost entirely absent. The external bank is mostly eroded away and encloses the site NE-ENE and in small portions at SW, NW and N. A break (Wth 3.2m) in the bank with a slight causeway across the fosse at E marks the position of the original entrance. An E-W orientated field boundary bank lies along the line of the external bank at S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.