Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cuilsheeghary More, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilsheeghary More
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04044, -8.34803
- SMR number
- SL040-248----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on the narrow top of a NNW−SSE ridge, on the E flank of the Bricklieve Mountains, overlooking Lough Arrow to E−SE. The ridge slopes falls away steeply immediately to E, and somewhat more gradually on the W side, and to N, the spine of the ridge inclines gradually downwards. At E, the ridge slope drops to a lower ridge or broad terrace, where a cashel (SL040-126----) is located c. 150m to NE. Several other cashels are located within a radius of a few hundred meters, with a particular cluster c. 300m to W.
This enclosure is not shown on the 1837 and 1914 OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled, but its outline can still be traced. It consists of a circular area (19m E−W; 19m N−S) defined by a slight mossy rise (Wth 1-1.4m), which represents the remnants of an enclosing wall/bank. It encompasses most of the available E-W width of the narrow ridge top, and on the E side coincides with the natural break of slope, where the ridge slope drops steeply.
The enclosing element seems most likely to have been a wall; the mossy cropmark would suggest this, and the majority of ringforts/enclosures in this area of the Bricklieves are cashels or stone enclosures. It is almost entirely levelled at SE−SSW, but is more easily traced at SW−NE. It appears to have been truncated at ESE−E by a shallow, subcircular depression (diam. c. 5m), now largely obscured by brambles.
In the N half of the interior there is an irregular-shaped, grassed-over pit or depression (4m NE−SW; 1m NW−SE; D 0.4m), with a shallower, narrower extension (L 1m) to NW at its SW end. It is bordered at top by a slightly raised rim. Its significance is uncertain, but there is no obvious evidence of stone lining or any structural features to suggest that it is a souterrain.
Slight remnants of a field wall, on an ENE-WSW axis, abut the enclosing wall at SW and NE, and extend downslope beyond the cashel.
Attached image: SL040-248----_01.JPG: viewed from N.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.