Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilcashel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcashel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 53.88479, -8.68301
- SMR number
- MA073-029----
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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)
- 1857 · 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, located on a roughly E-W ridge, close to the break of slope on the N side. There are very good views to N−NE.
This cashel is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is named ‘Cashel’ on the 1919 edition. Dilapidated remains of an originally circular cashel (diam. c. 25m), crossed E of centre by a field fence on a NNE−SSW axis and truncated to S by an E-W road.
The enclosing wall survives at SW−NNE as a low, sod-covered stone bank (Wth c. 2.5m). Large in situ stone blocks, part of the original external wall face, are visible in parts. It survives to a maximum external height of c. 0.65m, and its internal edge is almost flush with the slightly raised interior surface. At NW−N remnants of a field wall on a roughly E−W axis merge with the wall.
The E arc of the cashel wall has been removed, and its original curve can be traced now as a slight, grass-covered undulation. The S arc of the cashel has been destroyed by the E-W road. A thicket of blackthorn obscures much of the W half of the cashel.
There is a cashel (MA073-028----) 150m to WSW and another cashel (MA073-030001-) 200m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.