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Ringfort - cashel

Crancam, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Crancam, 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
Crancam
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.40398, -8.00526
SMR number
RO052-007----

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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

Marked as a subrectangular or D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 45m E-W; c. 45m N-S) truncated by a lane at W on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a subcircular field (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on the 1915 ed. Situated at the N end of a NW-SE ridge in an area with field walls. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-0.8m; H 0.5-1m) and hedge NW-E-S with field stones accumulated against its outer face, but there is no indication of the perimeter S-NW or of an earlier feature. There is a silage pit inside the perimeter at S. It was probably a cashel.

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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