Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45363, -8.12302
- SMR number
- RO048-101001-
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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
On a NE-facing slope of Cam Hill. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 43.3m NNW-SSE; 43.1m NNE-SSW) defined by a stone spread (at S: Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.7m) ESE-SW with some facing-stones (original Wth 1.5m), but overlain by a drystone wall and hedge NNW-ESE. A N-S field wall truncates the perimeter at W which survives as a slight rise. There is a house site (RO048-101002-) (dims 13m NW-SE; 7.5m NE-SW) at the centre which has entrances in the SE wall and at the N end of the SW wall. Another house (RO048-0101003-) (dims 8m NW-SE; 5m NE-SW) abuts the inside of the perimeter at SE, and both are defined by the grass-covered foundations of stone walls.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.