Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Finnor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90526, -8.16096
- SMR number
- RO011-091----
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 rise overlooking the W-E Killukin River, c. 130m to the N. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a gapped and grass-covered stone spread (Wth 0.9m at N to 2.6m at W; int. H 0.1m at S to 0.95m at W; ext. H 0.1-0.2m), with a drystone wall built on top of a scarp (H 1.5-1.7m) N-E-SW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-092001-) is c. 120m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.