Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Derrygirraun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrygirraun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 54.00948, -8.13063
- SMR number
- RO004-047----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as an antiquity only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a 'Cashel', and situated on a slight ridge towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular area (diam. c. 32m) which is used as a garden defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) E-S, a drystone wall S-NW, a masonry wall NW-N and farm buildings N-E. Rath (RO004-046----) is c. 190m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.