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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Cashel, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Cashel, County Longford, 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
Cashel
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.59145, -7.97893
SMR number
LF021-033----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on a SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Ree. This large ecclesiastical enclosure (140m NNW-SSE; c. 115m ENE-WSW) was probably originally oval in plan. It is defined by a modern stone wall from S-SW-WSW and by disused field boundaries from WNW-N-NNE, which may mirror the circuit of the original enclosing element. Elsewhere no trace of it survives. The enclosure is divided into unequal portions by a NE-SW running roadway. Within the larger portion, to the SE, are a late-medieval church (LF021-033001-) and graveyard (LF021-033003-) and, immediately to the E of the latter, a 19th-century graveyard. There is a possible cashel (LF021-033002-) in the smaller portion to the NW of the roadway.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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