Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cashelmeehan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelmeehan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69427, -8.18012
- SMR number
- RO035-043001-
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
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDV 24-28), and situated on a flat karst landscape. Thisi s a subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 30m x c. 25m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance. It is within field system (RO034-043003-). To the NW there are the grass-covered foundations of two houses (RO035-043002-; RO035-043004-) (int. dims 2m x 2m; 9.6m x 6m). It has been removed since 1996 (Bing c. 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.