Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilmacteige, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacteige
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashelmore
- Coordinates
- 54.04164, -8.94006
- SMR number
- SL036-014001-
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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
On a break in a S-facing slope of the Ox Mountains. A raised roughly circular area (32m N-S; 34.2m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2.5m) which has been rebuilt along its S arc. A dry flat-bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 6.5m) separates the inner drystone wall from an earthen counterscarp bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.45m). The bank is revetted in parts externally on the E side by drystone walling. The interior is level and there is a souterrain (SL036-014002-) in the NW quadrant. A rath (SL036-015----) lies c. 80m to E.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.