Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Coolnaha South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnaha South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 53.79496, -8.77113
- SMR number
- MA093-025001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Within the grounds of Ballyhaunis Golf course. Encompassing a low elevation in undulating terrain with excellent views S−W over expanses of mixed pasture and bog. Ground rises to NW and to NE; a line of conifers blocks views to N.
Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the on the 1916 edition as a circular enclosure (diam. 45-50m), outline by a single ring of hachures, named ‘Cashel’.
The remains are evident as a raised roughly circular area (diam. c. 40-45m) covered in a densely matted carpet of scutch grass, 0.4m or more in depth, which obscures all detail. There is no visible trace of an enclosing wall or of the souterrain (MAA093-025002-), which according to local information is located in the cashel interior.
The thick hummocks of grass create a very uneven surface, with several narrow ‘trenches’ or ‘tunnels’ extending through it, which may be rabbit runs. A few hawthorn bushes grow on the perimeter at W. A small gravelled road skirts the SE-S arc and the golf course fairways and green are immediately to W and N.
Attached image:
MA093-025001-_01.JPG viewed from N
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.