Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cashel, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96742, -8.42621
- SMR number
- SL045-005----
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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 wet stony pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 33m x 35m) enclosed by a drystone wall (T 1.5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.6m). The wall has a rubble core with internal and external stone facing and a basal course of large boulders. Except for the N arc, the wall is ruinous and covered with overgrowth. The interior is very overgrown with trees and bushes. Recorded in 1836 as 'Caisiol, a stone fort. There was formerly an old building in the townland called Caisiol in Irish' (OSNB vol. 1, 479). Several stone field boundaries adjoin the cashel.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.