Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rue, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rue
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03497, -8.76552
- SMR number
- SL037-077001-
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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 the top of a low rise. A circular area (int. diam. 32m) enclosed by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth c. 2.8m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.2m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 7m; D 1.2m). Remains of an earthen counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.6m) are evident SSE-NW. The entrance (Wth c. 3.5m) is at SE with a causeway across the fosse. The interior is densely covered with overgrowth; the E half is much disturbed by animals. There is a souterrain (SL037-077002-) in the NW quadrant. A field boundary curves around the N arc.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.