Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Crannagh More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crannagh More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40057, -7.99323
- SMR number
- RO052-019----
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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 a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an overgrown stone spread (at W: Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m) SE-W-NE, but the perimeter is reduced to a stoney scarp down to the interior (H c. 0.4m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance. Cashel (RO052-018----) is c 60m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.