Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cashlan West, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashlan West
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02095, -6.74742
- SMR number
- MO028-100----
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
Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 28m NE-SW; 25.6m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SW (H 2.6m). It is defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 6.6m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1m) with some bushes and an outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 4.2m; ext. D 0.4m) but the bank is reduced to a scarp (at SW: Wth 4m; H 2.3m) SE-S-NW and the fosse is absent SE-W-N. The lower part (H 1.1m) of the scarp was incorporated into a field bank S-NW and protected with a stone facing. There is a wide entrance (Wth of base 4m) at SSE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
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- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.