Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Usna, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Usna
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96471, -8.16696
- SMR number
- RO006-115001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf on a SE-facing slope overlooking the floodplain of the Boyle River and Lough Eiden, c. 350m to the E. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 30.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 2.7m at N to 4.3-5m generally; int. H 0.3m at E to 0.6-0.8m generally; ext. H 0.3-0.5m E-S to 0.7-0.9m W-N). There is no visible entrance, but there is a house site (RO006-115002-) (int. dims 10m N-S; 5.2m) inside the perimeter at NE defined by the base of stone walls (Wth 0.8m) at N and W and the inner edge of the cashel perimeter at E. Rath (RO006-114----) is c. 190m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.