Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Forkfield Or Gowel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forkfield Or Gowel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78621, -9.39964
- SMR number
- MA089-065----
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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
In pasture, located on dry grassland, bordered at S and N−NE by expanses of damp, poorly drained land, and overlooked at SW−W by a high ridge.
This cashel is not indicated on the 1838 and 1930 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It consists of a roughly circular area (22m N−S; 24m E−W) defined by remnants of a stone wall. The wall consists of a rubble core contained between facings of large stones. It is poorly preserved, and is evident mainly as low, grass-covered wall footings (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.5m; max. ext. H 1m at NE). A gap (Wth 1.75m) in the wall at E may represent an original entrance. Cultivation ridges, on a NNW−SSE axis, traverse the interior. A single thorn tree grows on the edge of the wall at S. Immediately outside the enclosing wall at NE there are three large stones in a roughly N-S row. Their significance is uncertain; one possibility is that they are remnants of a field wall.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.