Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Dadreen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dadreen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cahernavilla
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahernavilla
- Coordinates
- 53.65667, -9.86674
- SMR number
- MA105-013----
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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 a terrace on a SW-facing slope. This cashel is named ‘Cahervilla’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps, and is indicated as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 65m NW−SE; c. 50m NE−SW) incorporated into later field boundaries. Subdivisions within the interior, and a rectangular building at the NE edge of the enclosure, are indicated on the 1838 map; these are not shown on the 1919 edition. The cashel has been levelled; a modern dwelling stands in the SE half, and a roadway, bordered by a drystone wall, skirts what was the W side of the enclosure.
A cross-slab (MA105-015----) stands in the N half, though this may not be its original location. The large size of the enclosure, coupled with its association with the cross-slab, raises the possibility that the enclosure may have been ecclesiastical in nature.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.