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Ringfort - cashel

Carn More,Cashels, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Carn More, Cashels, 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
Carn More,Cashels
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.81292, -8.79718
SMR number
MA082-045----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In pasture, located on a terrace on a SW-facing slope, with good views SE–SW.
Circular area (35m E–W; 36.8m N–S) defined by a collapsed limestone wall (Wth 2.6-3m; H 0.2m). The wall is evident as a low, moss-covered stony rise with in situ facing stones visible in parts on the inner face.
The N third of the interior is higher, sloping markedly down from there towards the centre then levelling out. The original entrance may have been at the E where a low section (Wth 4-5m) of the enclosing wall is evident, facing a continuation of the natural terrace to E.
A ruined wall (Wth 1m; H 0.3m) extends through the centre of the interior from the cashel wall at E for 16m to WNW ending 2m short of a horseshoe-shaped stone structure/possible hut site (MA082-045001-) located in the NW quadrant.
Hawthorn, hazel and blackthorn scrub engulf the W third of the cashel interior. A field wall/townland boundary crosses the W edge of the cashel on a roughly N–S axis.

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.

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