Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Drumacoo, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacoo
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94078, -8.54019
- SMR number
- RO008-005001-
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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
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 (MA 64) and 1915 (diam. c. 25m) eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 25.5m N-S; c. 18.5m E-W) defined by the base of a stone wall with visible facing-stones (at W: Wth of base 2.1m; H 0.2-0.4m) SW-NW and a scarp (at E: H 0.1m; at S: 1.6m) E-SW. It is overlain by a N-S drystone wall W of the centre and an E-W drystone wall on the perimeter at N and had been reclaimed. Souterrain (RO008-005002-) is on the perimeter at S and the cashel is inside the S edge of cashel (RO008-005003-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.