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Ringfort - cashel

Garrynphort (Athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Garrynphort, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Garrynphort (Athlone North By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48792, -8.18972
SMR number
RO047-019004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a gently undulating landscape with limestone outcrop. Subcircular slightly domed and scrub-covered area (int. dims 51m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4-7m; H 0.3-0.8m) with facing-stones, best preserved at SSW where up to 3 courses survive (original Wth 2.2-2.45m). The entrance at ESE has 3 large stones on the N side of the passage, but the S side does not survive. A house-site (RO047-019005-) (int. dims 9.3m NNE-SSW; 5.2m) defined by grass-covered stone spreads (Wth 1-2m) with doorways on the long walls and an internal division is on a NE-SW ridge in the interior. The interior is overlain by a relict NE-SW field wall associated with the field system (RO047-019001-) and there are clearance cairns in the interior. Rath (RO044-087001-) is c. 200m to the NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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