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cashels

cashels is the plural of cashel.

Meaning of cashel

Noun

cashel (plural cashels)

  1. (historical) In 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

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Questions about cashels

What is cashels the plural of?
Cashels is the plural of cashel.

Words near cashels in the dictionary

  1. cashed-up bogan
  2. cashed-up bogans
  3. casheer
  4. casheers
  5. cashel
  6. cashels
  7. Cashen
  8. Cashens
  9. casher
  10. casher box
  11. casher boxes

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