Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Drumaskibbole, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumaskibbole
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.22349, -8.48109
- SMR number
- SL020-123----
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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
Located on a ridge in undulating pasture with a view onto the Ox Mountains. Comprises an oval raised area (int. dims. 24m E-W, 27m N-S) enclosed by a stone wall( Wth 2.50m, max. H 1.60m) with only a few instances of the inner and outer facing surviving. The site is divided internally by a pair of of rubble cross-walls and the E side has been used to construct an external field boundary. There is no indication of a ditch or entrance.
Compiled by : Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 4 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.