Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cross South, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross South
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93430, -8.53191
- SMR number
- RO008-006001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a low knoll on a S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 31.1m N-S; 27.4m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.2-6.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) SW-N-SE and a scarp with facing-stones (Wth 0.5m; H 0.2m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance, but there is a grass-covered mound (RO008-006003-) (diam. 5m; H 0.3-0.8m) E of the centre. Souterrain (RO008-006002-) is under the perimeter at WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.