Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
An Caiseal (tc Maol Mosóg), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Caiseal (tc Maol Mosóg)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.74230, -8.41827
- SMR number
- DG082-006----
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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
Marked as a single-ringed 'Fort' on the OS 6-inch maps the site now consists of a subcircular platform 33.5m in diameter, from .5m to 3.3m above the surrounding land. Stones are incorporated into the edges of the platform but probably most of them have beep robbed to build the adjacent field walls. The site is located on a small hill at the base of the E side of the N-S valley of the River Aighe, on the margin between good and rough 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.