Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Aghacurreen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghacurreen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 53.85252, -8.54843
- SMR number
- RO014-041001-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the crest of the E-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, at the SE end. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 24.1m N-S) defined by 14 large stones (dims up to 1.2m x. 0.8m; H 0.7m) which are the inner or outer facing stones of the wall, the rest being robbed. Souterrain (RO014-041002-) is in the interior, mass-rock (RO014-041003-) is 9m to the SE, and there are quarries to 15m the N and just to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.