Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Drumaskibbole, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumaskibbole
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.22460, -8.48385
- SMR number
- SL020-122----
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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
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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.