Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Altanelvick, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Altanelvick
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21169, -8.64444
- SMR number
- SL019-129002-
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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 N-S ridge in reclamed pasture. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Circular cashel enclosed by 2 widely-spaced outer walls whose intervening spaces were divided by radial walls and other more irregular subdivisions identified from aerial photograph (ACP V 203/ 148-9; Roll 25, pr. 19 & 20). The cashel was levelled in the 1960's. Remains comprise a slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 29m) with ephemeral remnants of the two outer walls still identifiable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.