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Cashel is a ringfort located in the Newry and Mourne district of County Down, Northern Ireland. The site consists of a circular or oval earthwork enclosed by a bank and ditch, a defensive structure characteristic of early medieval Irish settlement patterns dating from approximately the fifth to twelfth centuries. Such cashels served as fortified homesteads for pastoral communities and functioned as territorial markers within the early Christian landscape. The monument represents an important category of archaeological evidence for understanding settlement distribution and social organisation in early medieval Ulster.
Cashel is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 8390. View the official record →
Cashel is a ringfort 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 8390.
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 8390.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone faced rath - one of a pair with 051 (7 km), Standing stone (7 km), Stone faced rath - one of a pair with 051 (7.1 km).
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