Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Abbeytown, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeytown
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.21297, -8.52880
- SMR number
- SL020-158----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pasture, on a NW-facing slope with excellent views. An oval area (33.7m NNW-SSE; 19.2m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low grass-covered drystone wall (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.85m). From NNE-SE the wall has been modified and incorporated into a linear field boundary, aligned NNW-SSE. There is a break (Wth c. 3.8m) in the wall at S. The interior is slightly sunken.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mineunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.