Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilcummin, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcummin
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11828, -8.74426
- SMR number
- SL031-003----
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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, with numerous rock outcrops, on a gentle SE-facing slope and c. 60m W of a tributary of the River Moy. A circular area (22m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.2m; H 2m) and raised slightly in the E half to compensate for the hillslope. The enclosing wall is evident only as foundations in places while its height has been increased in other places, especially along the W arc, by the addition of field-clearance stones. A rim (Wth 3m) of sod-covered collapsed stones lies immediately outside the cashel wall. The interior is level and largely covered with hawthorn bushes. According to local information, this cashel was formerly used as a burial ground (SL031-003002-). A bullaun stone (SL031-003001-) lies c. 25m to ENE.
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).
Attached images:
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Updated upload: 6 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.