Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilcash, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcash
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57535, -8.14773
- SMR number
- RO042-019001-
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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 as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photograph (GSIAP: M 153-4), and situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope of Moydow Hill. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32.7m NW-SE; ext. diam. 36.4m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread with inner and outer facing-stones visible (original Wth 1.7-1.9m; H up to 0.85m) WNW-E-S. The perimeter does not survive elsewhere and there is no identifiable original entrance, but there is a house site (RO042-019002-) (ext. dims 10.3m N-S; 10.3m) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone spread, with an entrance at the SE corner just outside the cashel at NW. Rath (RO042-020----) is c. 120m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.