Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

In rough pasture, on a level terrace close to break of slope, on the NE side of a stream valley. A dense hazel and holly wood borders the cashel to S and SW and an impenetrable band of blackthorn bushes conceals the enclosing wall N-SE. A roughly circular area (c. 21m N-S; c. 22m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.4m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.3m). The wall is most substantial NW-SE where it serves as a property boundary. Elsewhere it is ruinous and evident mainly as a broad moss-covered heap of stones (Wth c. 4m; H c. 0.7m) with obvious attempts at rebuilding in places. There is a break (Wth 0.6m) in the bank at NW and several low areas in the tumbled wall SE-S. The interior is densely overgrown with hazel and blackthorn though a scattering of loose stones covering the surface is evident. Field boundaries radiate out from the cashel wall at N, SE, S, W and NW. A small rectangular hut site (SL046-021001-) lies c. 3m to SE and another cashel (SL046-020----) lies c. 80m to W.

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