Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Currinah, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currinah
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93488, -8.65785
- SMR number
- RO008C006001-
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
On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 23.4m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.1-3.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) with an arc of outer facing stones (C 5m) visible at S. There is no visible entrance, but souterrain (RO008C-006002-) is inside the perimeter at NW. A drystone wall (Wth 0.5-0.6m; H 0.8-1.1m) is built on the perimeter.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.