Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rathosey, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathosey
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18077, -8.61194
- SMR number
- SL025-015001-
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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 rocky pasture, on a slight rise on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains. The northernmost of two conjoined cashels (see SL025-01502-). A slightly raised oval area (34m N-S; 25.7m E-W) enclosed by a mostly collapsed drystone wall which is most substantial at W (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) but elsewhere is reduced to a heap of stones. From SSE-SSW the wall is shared by the adjoining cashel (SL025-01502-). The interior is level. Part of a complex of cashels (SL025-01502-; SL025-01504-; SL025-01507-; SL025-01508-; SL025-01512-), enclosures (SL025-01503-; SL025-01511-), a possible enclosure (SL025-01505-), a rath (SL025-01506-) and a hut site (SL025-01510-).
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.