Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Cashel, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96833, -8.42548
- SMR number
- SL045-018----
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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
Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'House'. In wet stony sloping ground. The remains of a small rectangular structure (ext. dims. L 5.7m; Wth 3.3m) of drystone construction. The W gable (H 1.7m) and the N and S walls survive; the E gable is missing. The walls (T 0.5m at base, 0.35m at top) have a base batter. There is a door ope, with a single flat lintel (Wth 0.85m), in the N wall. There is a small splayed window (0.35m x 0.3m) to the upper left of the door ope and a similar window in the S wall. The interior is densley covered with overgrowth. This house is attached to a stone-built field boundary. A roofed structure is indicated here on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is likely to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 10 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.