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CASHEL - CAISEAL. A CIRCULAR STONE FORT - This is the English form of the Irish word Caiseal - a circular stone fort. It is the name of some fifty townlands in Ireland and forms part of the names of about fifty others, e.g. Cashelfean, the stone fort of the Fianna or ancient Irish Militia. Cashel, Co. Tipperary, was formerly the capital of Munster, and is still, in the Roman Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical metropolis of the southern province. The imposing group of buildings on the famous Rock of Cashel are among the noblest remains of the early Irish civilization. They date from the 12th and 13th centuries, the Round Tower being earlier. The population of Cashel is 2,945 (1926).