Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Cashel (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68747, -9.14490
- SMR number
- MA110-014002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a possible cashel (MA110-014001-).
Knox (1911, 302) recorded that ‘there are foundations of stone buildings on the top [of the cashel platform], but nothing quite definite.’ These may have been in the W half of the cashel, where a low, poorly defined rise (max. dim. c. 7-10m) is evident. It is defined on its E side by slight N−S scarp and at NW by short length of low sod-covered stony bank (L m; Wth 1.6m; H 0.4m) which curves S−NE, and is truncated at its NE end by a subrectangular pit (11m E−W; 5m N−S; D 1.2m at W end) dug into the NW sector of the cashel platform.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 October 2021
References
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.