Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Falleens, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Falleens
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96259, -8.45719
- SMR number
- SL044-074----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, straddling a natural elevation and overlooking Lough Gara to E. A roughly circular area (28m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 2m; ext. H 2.2m) of roughly coursed limestone blocks and slabs. The wall is well preserved SW-N, is reduced internally N-E to a low heap of rubble and externally consists of a facing (H 1.8m) on a scarp cut into the natural slope, some of which has collapsed downslope and topped with a field boundary wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.5-1m). The wall remains largely intact ESE-SSE but expands in width to 2.4m. From S-SW, where the external ground level is significantly higher than that of the interior, the external wall face is low and almost flush with the external ground level. A trackway (Wth 1.7m) flanked by walls, curves around the cashel SSE-SSW, partially overlying the cashel wall. The only break (Wth c. 2.5m) in the wall is at E and is engulfed in overgrowth. The interior slopes down to NE and E and is largely covered in blackthorn and brambles.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.