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Ringfort - cashel

Drumaskibbole, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Drumaskibbole, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumaskibbole
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.22460, -8.48385
SMR number
SL020-122----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Straddling the narrow top of a ridge in undulating pasture with views onto Knocknarea, the Dartry Plateau and the Ox Mountains.
A circular area (int. diam. 20.50m) enclosed by a wall (Wth c. 1.8m; H 0.4-0.6m) with a rubble core and remnants inner and outer facing. On the W side the enclosing wall has been incorporated into a later N–S field boundary, and a field wall also merges with the S edge of the enclosure. The entrance may have been in the SE, but is not clearly defined. A slightly sunken trackway (Wth 1.4m) flanked by walls (Wth 0.7m; H 0.55m), now ruined, cuts through the centre of interior on a N-S axis. Hazel and holly trees ring the perimeter, and hazel trees grow in the interior.

Attached images:
SL020-122----_01.JPG viewed from NE
SL020-122----_02.JPG viewed from E
SL020-122----_03.JPG trackway cutting through interior

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 27 June 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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