Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castlesampson, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlesampson
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42046, -8.11647
- SMR number
- RO051-093----
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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 228-9), and situated on the crest of a NNW-SSE section of an esker ridge. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 42.7m E-W; 34.6m N-S) defined by an overgrown spread of stone, with facing-stones visible at SE (original Wth 2m; H 0.5m). A gap at E may be original, but could be associated with modern pens against the inner edge of the perimeter at S. A relict N-S wall survives within the monument towards the perimeter at W, and there are some relict walls outside the enclosure at W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.