cashel

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæʃəl/
• Rhymes: -æʃəl

cashel (plural cashels)

1. (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.

• Laches, chelas, laches, sachel