Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cashel South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03058, -8.75010
- SMR number
- SL037-079001-
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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 a gentle NE-facing slope. A raised D-shaped area (31m NW-SE; 18.5m NE-SW) with a WNW-ESE field boundary forming the straight N side. The interior is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m) along the W, E and SE arcs. A disused road cuts the rath off centre to W on a NNE-SSW axis. According to local information, this rath was used as a burial ground (SL037-079002-) for unbaptised children.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.