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Ringfort - cashel

Rathosey, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Rathosey, 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
Rathosey
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.17925, -8.60876
SMR number
SL025-015004-

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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 a level area in rock strewn pasture, on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 18m) defined by the remains of a collapsed stone wall (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) NW-S and by a field boundary wall elsewhere. The field boundary wall continues NW-N c. 2m inside the line of the original enclosing element. The interior is level and raised on the N and E sides to compensate for the hillslope. Remains of a low sod-covered field boundary (Wth 1.2m) cross the interior on a NNE-SSW axis. There is a slightly raised semicircular area (3m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.3m) at SSW adjacent to the inner face of the enclosing field boundary. A post and wire fence crosses the interior on a N-S axis off centre to E. Part of a complex of cashels (SL025-015001-; SL025-015002-; SL025-015007-; SL025-015008-; SL025-015012-), enclosures (SL025-015003-; SL025-015011-), a possible enclosure (SL025-015005-), a rath (SL025-015006-) and a hut site (SL025-015010-).

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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