Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cuilmore (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilmore (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40571, -8.06186
- SMR number
- RO051-040001-
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
On the crest of a knoll. Circular, slightly domed, grass and scrub-covered area (int. diam. 21.5m NNW-SSE) defined by the remains of a stone wall with inner and outer facing-stones and a rubble core (Wth 1.45-1.65m; max. H 0.6m) SSE-W-NE. A house site (RO051-040002-) (ext. dims at least 5m E-W; 3.3m N-S) defined by the base of a stone wall abuts the inner face of the cashel wall at N. There are fieldstones on the perimeter SSW-WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.