Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sroove, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sroove
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95260, -8.49448
- SMR number
- SL046-002----
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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 rocky upland pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a solid line similar to a cashel (SL046-015001-) c. 700m to S. Little remains of this enclosure, which appears to have encompassed a natural terrace (c. 31m NE-SW) defined by a slope (H 1m). A band of ferns which follows a shallow curve at the break of slope NE-S may indicate the line of the enclosing element.
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
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.