Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonmacduff, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmacduff
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 54.19296, -8.46400
- SMR number
- SL020-218002-
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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
On top of a rise at a bend in the Arrow or Unshin river. An oval area (int. diam. 31m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with external stone facing. A 'Druids Altar' (SL020-218003-) is in the centre of the interior. A possible church (SL020-218001-) is associated with this cashel. Described by O'Rorke (1878, 93-4) as 'a fort or rath of one hundred and forty feet [42.7m] in diameter, and five or six feet [1.52-1.82m] in height, though somewhat depressed and dilapidated in parts, and particularly at the edge, which was formerly faced with large stones, forming a cashel'. O'Rorke also recorded that the surrounding land was known as 'Patrick's pasture' (ibid.). St Patrick's well (SL020-217----) is c. 160m to SSW. There is a cashel (SL020-218004-) immediately to NW and a souterrain (SL020-218005-) c. 30m to NW.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.