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
- 54.02324, -8.75100
- SMR number
- SL037-092----
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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, in a dry hollow on the S-facing slope of a low rise. A raised oval area (44m N-S; 38.5m E-W) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.4m) SE-NE. A NNW-SSE field boundary bisects the interior and a second field boundary (on an E-W axis) extends E from the centre. A smaller field boundary and drain (on a NE-SW axis) cross the NW portion of the interior.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.