Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cashel South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02757, -8.75482
- SMR number
- SL037-081----
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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 NW-facing slope immediately E of the Galway-Sligo railway line. The remains of a raised roughly circular area (35.5m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.8m) along the S, N and W arcs. The rath has been severely damaged by extensive quarrying, probably during the construction of the adjacent railway line. Earthworks (SL037-080----) immediately to N seem to be remains of old field boundaries and scarps modifying natural contours.
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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.