Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockbrack (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (leyny By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01393, -8.92934
- SMR number
- SL036-059----
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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 the southern slope of a ridge. An oval area (dims. 30m N-S; c. 33m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 2.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) NW-SW. The wall has been removed SW-NW and stones pushed up against the inside of the surviving wall. The external face of the drystone wall has been repaired in places where it is used as a field boundary. The S half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. Field boundaries extend out from the cashel wall at N and S.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.