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Hilltop enclosure in Carrickbanagher

Hilltop enclosure

What is recorded here

In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge with excellent views of the surrounding countryside. Named 'The Cashel' on the 19 OS 6-inch map, this hilltop enclosure, consists of an oval area (65m N-S; 50m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall. The wall, which is highest along the W arc (T 0.6m; H 1.3m), has a rubble core with a facing of stone. Condit, Gibbons and Timoney (1991, 61-2) suggest that a gap through the wall at S may be the original entrance. The interior rises towards the centre. A field boundary indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map bisecting the interior on a NW-SE axis, was not indicated on the 1913 OS 6-inch map. A rath (SL026-140----) lies c. 190m to SSE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL026-141

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Djedi Guy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Neville Goodman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Zxcode / Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Eamonn McMunn / Sligo GAA (credit printed on photograph), www.sligogaa.ie
  • Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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