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Ringfort - rath

Cashel North, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cashel North, 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
Cashel North
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.12749, -8.68533
SMR number
SL032-011----

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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 pasture, on level ground, which slopes down from the rath to W and NW. A roughly circular area (63m N-S; 66m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) SE-S and W-NE and by a scarp elsewhere. A field boundary truncates the rath E-SE. There is a break (Wth 15m) in the bank S-SW. A wide dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 9m; D 0.7m), which is shallow along the W arc, is evident at the base of the bank. The interior slopes very gently down to S with the remains of cultivation ridges crossing it on a NNE-SSW axis. There is a souterrain (SL032-232----) c. 220m to ESE.

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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