Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05812, -8.37153
- SMR number
- SL040-109----
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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 raised bog, on the N end of a promontory ridge, in the Bricklieve Mountains. An oval area (int. diam. 17.4m x 14.4m) enclosed by a low ruinous partially sod-covered stone wall (T 1.8m; H 0.5m). At S the wall is crossed by a field boundary. The interior is covered by peat.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.