cashel
See also: Cashel
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Etymology edit
From Irish caiseal, from Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of castell, castellum, castle, and château.
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Noun edit
cashel (plural cashels)
- (historical) In early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.
- 2013, Pamela Crabtree, Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia:
- A cashel is basically a ringfort (a circulr living area surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch) in which the bank surrounding the settlement is a stone wall; often, cashels did not have a surrounding ditch.