Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Murrooghtoohy North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murrooghtoohy North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherdoonteigusha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherdoonteigusha (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.13122, -9.27490
- SMR number
- CL001-006----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On level improved pasture with extensive field clearance to the E and good views of the Aran Islands to the W. A poorly preserved cashel (27.2m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a stone wall from E to NW and by a scarp from NW to E. Field clearance material has been dumped on the enclosing wall which is heavily overgrown. A modern gap (Wth 0.9m) at SSE is defined by two short lengths of modern drystone wall (H 1.2m; Wth 0.6m) and may be the site of the original entrance. Some outer facing-stones are visible immediately W of this entrance. A house lies partly on the line of the enclosure at NW and a septic tank has been dug in the SE sector of the interior. (Westropp 1900, 425; 1901, 7; 1915, 61)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 April 2014
References
Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.
Westropp, T.J. 1900 Excursions of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Summer meeting, 1900. Description of the places visited. Section IV. Fourth excursion. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 420-26.
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.