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Ringfort - cashel

Tawnagh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Tawnagh, 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
Tawnagh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44000, -8.12310
SMR number
RO048-131----

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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

Visible as a circular enclousre on aerial photographs (GSIAP M 595-6), and situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims. c. 29m NNW-SSE; 27.7m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.5-5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2-1.3m) with intermittently visible facing stones. There is no visible entrance but a relict field wall traverses the interior diagonally NE-SW. The perimeter is incorporated into a field wall NNW-NE and obscured by field stones S-WSW. Cashel (RO048-130----) is c. 60m to the WNW and rath (RO048-187----) is c. 180m to the NNE.

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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