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Ringfort - cashel

Lisduff (Leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lisduff, 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
Lisduff (Leyny By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.20522, -8.55982
SMR number
SL020-144----

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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

In pasture, on a SSE-facing slope. Indicated by a broken line on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular area truncated at E by a lane and abutting a field boundary at S. On the 1913 OS 6-inch map it is indicated by an arc of hachures NW-NNE in the NE corner of field. The S two-thirds of this cashel have been quarried away. Extant remains comprise of a raised D-shaped area (dims. c. 18m WNW-ESE), the straight S side (L c. 11.8m) of which is defined by a steep quarry face. From WSW-ESE the defining element is a low drystone wall which is greatly disturbed by deposits from the quarry. From ESE-SE there is a break in the wall.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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