or Cashil, a town of Ireland in the county of Tipperary, and province of Munster, with an archbishop's see. The ruins of the old cathedral testify its having been an extensive as well as handsome Gothic structure, boldly towering on the celebrated rock of Cashel, which taken together form a magnificent object, and bear honourable testimony to the labour and ingenuity, as well as the piety and zeal, of its former inhabitants. It is seen at a great distance, and in many directions. Adjoining it are the ruins of the chapel of Cormac MacCulman, at once king and archbishop of Cashel, supposed to have been the first stone building in Ireland; and seems, by its rude imitation of pillars and capitals, to have been copied after the Grecian architecture, and long to have preceded that which is usually called Gothic. Cormac MacCulman was a prince greatly celebrated by the Irish historians for his learning, piety, and valour. He wrote, in his native language, a history of Ireland, commonly called the Psalter of Cashel, which is still extant, and contains the most authentic account we have of the annals of the country to that period, about the year 900. On the top of the rock of Cashel, and adjoining the cathedral, is a lofty round tower, which proudly defied the too successful attempts of Archbishop Price, who in this century unroofed and thereby demolished the ancient cathedral founded by St Patrick. In the choir are the monuments of Myler Magrath, archbishop of this see, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and some other curious remains of antiquity. Cashel was formerly the royal seat and metropolis of the kings of Munster; and on the ascent to the cathedral is a large stone on which which every new king of Munster was, as the inhabitants report from tradition, formerly proclaimed. Cashel is at present but small to what we may suppose it to have been in ancient days. The archbishop's palace is a fine building. Here is a very handsome market house, a session's house, the county infirmary, a charter school for twenty boys and the same number of girls, and a very good barrack for two companies of foot. Dr Agar finished a very elegant church which was begun by his predecessor. W. Long. 7° 36' N. Lat. 52° 16'.