Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Hawksford, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hawksford
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94523, -8.65111
- SMR number
- RO008C005001-
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 steep S-facing slope at the W end of an E-W spur. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 62m N-S; 57m E-W) defined by a rebuilt drystone wall (Wth 2.1-3m; int. H 1.6-1.9m; ext. H 0.9-2m). Some of the outer facing-stones are visible at SE and SSW, and inner facing-stones are visible at SW and NW. There are five modern entrances and the site is bisected by a NE-SW field wall. The possible children's burial ground (RO008C005002-) is in inside the perimeter at SW.
See the attached aerial image taken from the NW with the children's burial ground under the bush.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.