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Cashel is a late medieval fortified enclosure located in the Newry and Mourne district of County Down, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of a substantial cashel or stone-built ringfort, a defensive settlement type with roots extending back through the medieval period, though this particular example dates to the later medieval era. The site represents a significant form of settlement architecture characteristic of Irish lordly and ecclesiastical territories during the late Middle Ages. Its stonework and structural layout provide evidence of the defensive and domestic priorities of its inhabitants during a period of considerable social and political complexity in the Irish midlands and south.
Cashel is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6023. View the official record →
Cashel is a late medieval fortified enclosure located in the Newry and Mourne district of County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6023.
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 6023.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mcpartland's forth. double ringed cashel & souterrain (0.3 km), Glasdrumman lough. crannog in glasdrumman lough (3 km), Counterscarp rath (3.3 km).
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