cashel

What it means

1. historicalIn early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.

   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.

   2013, Pamela Crabtree, Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia

In a sentence

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.

2013, Pamela Crabtree, Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia

Where it comes from

1. Latincastellum
2. Old Irishcaisel
3. Irishcaiseal
4. Englishcashel

From Irish caiseal, from Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of castell, castellum, castle, and château.