TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - cashel

Tooreen (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Tooreen, County Mayo, 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
Tooreen (Costello By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.83063, -8.77051
SMR number
MA082-040----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating pasture, located on a knoll, overlooked at SW–W by a ridge.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Recorded in aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 645 –4; Roll 218, pr. 10).
A circular area (31m N–S; c. 28m E–W) is defined by a low sod-covered stony rise (Wth 2-3.5m) representing a levelled enclosing bank or wall. It is incorporated into a later field wall at NNE–SSE. The interior slopes down gently to NE. There is a roughly circular, shallow surface depression (diam. 2-3m) to E of centre. According to local tradition, ‘stone flags’ were uncovered in the enclosure, possibly indicating a souterrain (MA082-040001-). There is an enclosure (MA082-020----) 65m to WNW, and an enclosure (MA082-039----) c. 190m to NNW, respectively.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 December 2021

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - cashel in Mayo All County Mayo records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map