Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrownleam, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownleam
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16180, -8.62285
- SMR number
- SL025-042----
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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 forestry, straddling a break of slope on the SW side of a low rise. A circular area (diam. 17m) enclosed by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.2m). The interior, which slopes gently down to SW, is planted with coniferous trees. A possible cashel (SL025-043----) lies c. 190m to SSE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.