Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cashel Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91479, -9.17800
- SMR number
- MA070-055----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
On a narrow N-S pasture ridge, in the NW corner of a later field. A heavily overgrown circular area (int. diam. 24m) is enclosed by a flat-topped (Wth 1-3m) bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2 at N to 9m at W; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.1 at S to 2.1m at W). A Children’s Burial ground (MA070-056----) lies c. 200m to the E and a second ringfort (MA070-105----) lies c. 130m to the S.
Date of visit: 7-3-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.