Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonmeen West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmeen West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95456, -8.75894
- SMR number
- MA063-023----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a gentle N-facing slope. Ground falls away gradually to N to an expanse of flat boggy pasture. Much of the rising ground to S is under coniferous plantation.
Sub-circular area (diam. c. 20-25m) enclosed by a roughly built drystone wall (Wth c. 0.8m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m) incorporated into a radiating system of field walls. The interior area is not noticeably raised. Overgrowth impeded examination of this enclosure: The perimeter is ringed with blackthorn and hawthorn, and an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn and brambles cloaks the interior. Cultivation ridges, on a NE-SW axis, are visible in the adjacent field to W.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.