Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cashel (Gleneely ED), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (Gleneely ED)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.25755, -7.21748
- SMR number
- DG011-045----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diam. 26m E-W. An oval enclosure delimited by a collapsed stone wall, clearly defined on the S (where natural rock occurs) through to the W and only partly on the N side, where it appears to have fallen down the natural incline. The wall at the E end consists of a very collapsed arc of stones with the external ground at a lower level. There is a pile of large roughly cut stones in the interior at the E end. These are probably connected with the lime kiln marked on the 1st edi-tion of the OS 6-inch map. The interior is fairly level, lower than the external ground to the S but higher else-where. The wall is a maximum of 1m high on the interior at the N end, but only .3m at the E end. It is situated on a natural rocky ridge, orientated E-W overlooking the surrounding rough pasture land.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.