
What is recorded here
On top of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 25.5m N-S; c. 23m E-W) revetted and enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.35m). The maximum width of the enclosing wall is 1.5m. The cashel is closely surrounded by a modern field boundary wall and overgrown with blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles.
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
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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