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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94076, -8.54033
- SMR number
- RO008-005003-
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
At the crest of a S-facing slope. D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims 32m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by the base of a stone wall with visible facing stones (at N: Wth 1.5m; H 0.4m) SSW-N. It is bisected by a N-S drystone wall and does not survive E of this feature. The S edge of cashel (RO008-005001-) is built on the perimeter at S.
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.