Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowcarragh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcarragh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10625, -8.66565
- SMR number
- SL032-082----
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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 a break in an E-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 38m) raised 0.8-1m in height above the external ground level. The interior is defined by the grass-covered foundations of a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m) with an external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.5m). Grass-covered foundations of a collapsed outer drystone wall (Wth c. 2m; ext. H 0.3m) are evident along the S, W and N arcs. The interior slopes down gently to E; in the S half is a rectangular area (5m N-S; 8.4m E-W) raised 0.2m above the interior ground level. A quarry cuts into the NE edge of the cashel.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.