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Ringfort - cashel

Tulach, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Tulach, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tulach
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
55.14826, -7.73754
SMR number
DG027-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked 'Doonbane' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch map. The site consists of a D-shaped natural rock platform c. 20m E-W and c. 9m N-S enclosed by the last remains of a semi-circular stone wall originally 2.75m wide on the N side and a steep drop to the S. 10m outside the stone wall and 4m below it is a concentric bank of earth and stone 3m wide along either side of which is a fosse. The bank and fosses fade out on the S side of the mound. Two gaps in the bank seem to be modern. The site is in a commanding and defensive position at the SW edge of a hilly plateau in rough grazing 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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