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Cashel is an early Christian cashel located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A cashel is a small, stone-walled settlement typical of early Christian rural communities in Ireland, usually circular or oval in plan and enclosed by dry-stone or mortared walls. This example sits on bedrock formed from the Tyrone Group, a Visean-age geological sequence comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. The underlying geology has shaped both the landscape and the available building materials at the site.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland under reference 10829, reflecting its archaeological and heritage significance. Early Christian cashels of this type date broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, serving as defensive enclosures for farmsteads, workshops and sometimes ecclesiastical communities. Their stone construction often survives considerably better than the timber-built structures that would have stood within them.
The Fermanagh setting places this cashel within a region rich in early Christian archaeology, where such settlements remain important evidence for settlement patterns, land use and daily life during the early medieval period. The site's survival provides material testimony to early Christian occupation and organisation in this part of Ulster.
Cashel is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10829. View the official record →
Cashel is an early Christian cashel located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10829.
Cashel dates from the e.christ. period, and is classified as a cashel. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cashel is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 10829.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Sub-rectangular enclosure (0.2 km), Cup-&-ring-marked stone (0.2 km), Cashel (0.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cashel's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cashel stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.