Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cashel North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12601, -8.69494
- SMR number
- SL032-008----
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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, on top of a low rise. An oval area (int. diam. 26.7m N-S; 32.7m E-W) divided by a N-S road off-centre to W. The interior is enclosed by grass-covered foundations of a stone wall (Wth 3m; max. H 0.4m) N-S. On the W side of the road the edge of the interior is defined by a scarp SW-NW. A second wall, N-SE, c. 1-2m down the slope from the inner wall, consists of large blocks of stones (Wth c. 0.3m) set in a contiguous line. The entrance (Wth 1.2m) is at E. The NE edge of the cashel has been quarried into.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.