Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carricknagat (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknagat (leyny By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19727, -8.50013
- SMR number
- SL020-198001-
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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 the E edge of a narrow terrace. A circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a collapsed stone wall which is evident as a low grass-covered spread of stones (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m). At NW an 11m stretch of the wall has been removed. There is a narrow gap (Wth 0.8m) at SSE. The interior is level. The cashel is incorporated into the NE quadrant of a large oval field (int. diam. c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) which is defined by a collapsed stone wall, a 30m stretch of which has been removed at NW, similar to that of the cashel. About 30m to E of the cashel is a D-shaped field (int. dims. c. 60m NNE-SSW), with a straight NW side (L c. 65m), also defined by a collapsed stone wall. Several small more regular fields, indicated on the 1913 OS 6-inch map, further to the E have been levelled.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.