Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Oldtown Kilcashel, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown Kilcashel
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34438, -8.10252
- SMR number
- RO054-017----
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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 gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m N-S; 28m E-W) with some bushes, used as a paddock with a slightly raised interior, defined by the base of a stone wall, visible intermittently as facing-stones (original Wth c. 1.5-1.8m; max. int. H 0.2m) beneath an overgrown drystone wall (Wth 0.9-1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1-1.5m), which has collapsed NNW-NNE. There is a modern entrance at NE, but the original entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at SE. Rath (RO054-016----) is c. 140m tot he NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.