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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.15030, -9.26092
- SMR number
- CL001-009----
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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 a gentle to moderately steep N-facing slope (400-500’) of Black Head with panoramic views over Galway Bay. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A trapezoidal enclosure (23m N–S; Wth at S 19m; Wth at N 16m) defined by relatively modern herringbone-style field walls (max. H 1.3m; Wth 0.8m). The N and E walls sit on older double-walling (Wth 1.3–1.7m) of possible medieval date. An entrance near the N end of the E wall (Wth 0.6m) may be relatively modern. The interior has a lot of bare outcropping rock. A cashel (CL001-010----), from which this site is visible, is located c.350m upslope to SSE.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL001-009----_01.jpg Google Earth image, taken 13 June 2011.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.