Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
An Dún Mór (tc Na Croisbhealaí), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Dún Mór (tc Na Croisbhealaí)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.13459, -8.07692
- SMR number
- DG025-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diam. c. 20m. This site is very ruined and appears as a low grassed-over, stony platform c. 0.5m high with traces of a low perimeter bank c. 0.2m high. It appears to have formed a semi-circle on plan, a steep fall c. 7m in height marking its N edge. A modern stone field wall runs E-W close to the N limit of the site. It is not clear whether this is a stone or earthen enclosure although the former is more likely. It is in level grazing land overlooked by a gentle rise to the W. To the E the land slopes gently to the Ray river.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.