Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonagashel, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonagashel
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10318, -8.47164
- SMR number
- SL033-077002-
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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 the SE quadrant of a circular enclosure (SL033-077001-). A slightly raised roughly circular area (30m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) SW-N and by a low scarp N-SE. Elsewhere the interior is slightly truncated by the inner edge of the fosse of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL033-077001-). The bank is mostly gently curved but becomes straight from NW-N and this appears to be its original form rather than a later modification. The interior slopes slightly down to SE. The remains of a possible souterrain (SL033-077003-) exists in the SW quadrant close to the terminal of the bank at SW. A field boundary (see SL033-075001-) with a fosse on its E side cross the interior on a NNW-SSE axis, off-centre to E. There is a field system (SL033-075001-) in the adjoining field to E and another rath (SL033-078---) lies c. 100m to SE.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.