Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Onagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Onagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41351, -8.13659
- SMR number
- RO051-095----
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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 229-30), and situated on a SW-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Described in 1995 (SMR file) as a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3.5m; max. H 0.3m). There were no visible facing-stones or an identifiable original entrance. Old field walls (Wth c. 2m; H 0.1m) run from the centre to the perimeter at N and W, and a small subrectangular enclosure (dims 7m-10m N-S; 5m E-W) is attached to the N-bound wall. It was removed by 2007. Cashel (RO051-096----) is c. 150m to the E.
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.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.