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Ringfort - cashel

Lugnamackan, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lugnamackan, 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
Lugnamackan
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.18962, -8.50693
SMR number
SL020-197007-

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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, near the top of a gentle S-facing slope and adjoining another cashel (SL020-197008-) to E. A circular area (int. diam. 18.8m N-S; 19.1m E-W) defined by a collapsed grass-covered stone wall (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m). The spread of the collapsed wall is widest (Wth 6m) SE-SW where it faces a natural scarp and narrowest (Wth 2.4m) at ESE where only a narrow fosse (Wth 0.6m) separates it from the bank of the adjoining cashel. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1m) at ESE. The interior is under pasture and slopes gently down to SE. Cultivation ridges, visible in an aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGM 35) taken in 1971, are not visible at ground level. A possible cashel (SL020-197009-) abuts the SE edge. Mentioned by Wood-Martin (1882, 21) as one of three raths in a 'trefoil arrangement'.

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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