Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cornamucklagh And Falmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornamucklagh And Falmore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83068, -8.40963
- SMR number
- RO021-004----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the E edge of a plateau. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims. 30.5m ENE-WSW; 24.3m NNW-SSE) which remains unplaned in a coniferous forest defined by a stone spread (Wth 4.2m at S to 6.6-9m generally; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 0.4-1.1m) with internal and external facing stones intermittently visible (at E: original Wth 2m). The original entrance (Wth 1.8m) is at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.