Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cashel (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (Tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25332, -9.23718
- SMR number
- MA015-069----
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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)
- 1841 · 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
Located in pasture on the level top of a ridge overlooking Curraghfin Lough.
According to local information (pers. comm. Greta Byrne), this is the site of a destroyed ringfort, but no further information is on record. It is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. There are no visible remains at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.