Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lackafin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackafin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 54.07952, -6.74688
- SMR number
- MO025-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on an E-facing slope. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures described in gothic lettering as a ‘Cashel’. It consists of an arc (Chord 45m NE-SW) of an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; max. H 1m) that survives E-SW and is visible on OSI aerial images (2000).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 February 2018
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.