Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilmacteige, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacteige
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04142, -8.93838
- SMR number
- SL036-015----
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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 S-facing slope of the Ox Mountains. An oval area (diam. 30m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) terraced into the slope with the N half 2.2m below and the S half up to 2m above the external ground level. Foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 0.6m), topped by a field boundary wall, are evident at the edge of the interior along the S and SE arcs. The cashel is densely overgrown with hawthorn and blackthorn bushes and brambles. Another cashel (SL036-014001-) lies c. 80m to W.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.