Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockaculleen Or Hollymount, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaculleen Or Hollymount
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95069, -8.19067
- SMR number
- RO006-165001-
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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 steep-sided NE-SW ridge with rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 26m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread with some bushes (Wth 1.75-2.25m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m) SW-N-NE which backs onto a cliff edge (H c. 5m) at SE. There is no visible entrance, but there are some quarries in the interior. Souterrain (RO006-165002-) is in the SW quadrant of the interior. Cashel (RO010-018----) is c. 180m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.