Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a slight rise on a broad undulating upland terrace. There are excellent views to NE, E and SE over the lowland surrounding Lough Arrow. The ground rises to W and NW in series of terraces to a high ridge. A circular area (21.6m N-S; 21.6m E-W), encompassing a low natural rise, defined by an inner degraded sod-covered stony scarp (H 0.3m) with a slight internal lip (Wth c. 1m), most clearly defined SSE-SSW. An outer degraded stony scarp is evident all round, separated from the inner scarp by a narrow intervening gap (Wth 1.2m), both truncated at W by a fragment of a field boundary wall. The outer scarp is topped NNW-E by a stony bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m) with traces of an inner kerb of large stones. At ENE the stony bank turns outward for c. 4m, possibly indicating the position of the entrance, and corresponding with a particularly degraded section of the inner scarp. There is a possible souterrain (SL040-125002-) in the NW quadrant of the interior and another (SL040-125003-) in the S half.

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).

Attached image: SL040-125001- Cashel viewed from NW

Date of upload: 18 January 2008