Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Drumacoo, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacoo
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94728, -8.53374
- SMR number
- RO008-003----
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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
At the crest of a gentle NE facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (int. dims 35.6m E-W; 28.3m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2.8-5.8m; int. H 0.4-1.5m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m) enhanced by recent field clearance and overlain by a drystone field wall (Wth 0.8-0.9m; H 0.8-0.9m). Some original inner facing stones survive at E. A rectangular drystone-built sheep pen (dims 10m E-W; 6m N-S) abuts the outer face of the wall at NNE, and an L-shaped drystone-built sheep pen (dims 2m N-S; 2m E-W) abuts the outer face of the wall at E. There is an entrance (Wth 3m), probably modern, at WSW, and the site is bisected by an ENE-WSW field wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.