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Ringfort - cashel

Carrowreagh (Leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Carrowreagh, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowreagh (Leyny By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.04838, -8.93348
SMR number
SL036-069001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on the southern slopes of the Ox Mountains. A circular area (diam. 25m) terraced into the hillside, with the N half up to 1.2m below and the S half up to 0.6m above the external ground level. The interior is defined by the remains of a drystone wall (Wth 1-2m; H 0.2-0.7m) except along the SW arc where only a scarp is evident. A field boundary bisects the cashel on a NW-SE axis. The interior slopes gently down to SE and is crossed by the remains of cultivation ridges. There is a possible souterrain (SL036-069002-) in the N half. The N half of the cashel is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a small semicircular field.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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