Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Muckinish West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckinish West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherloughlin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherloughlin (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.13431, -9.11405
- SMR number
- CL002-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope at the E end of a low E-W ridge in improved meadow and pastureland, c. 500m S of the foreshore. Indicated and named ‘Caherloughlin’ on the 1842 and 1915 OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Cathair Lochlainn’ on Robinson’s map (1977). The name of the cashel may be derived from Lochlain, chief of Corcomroe c. AD 980 (Westropp 1900, 415; 1901, 279). However, Lochlainn appears to have been a personal name of some popularity in the Burren during the 10th century and later became the name of the leading family there for many centuries (Ó Murchadha 1993, 68-9). A large, poorly preserved, oval enclosure (63.4m NNW–SSE; 54.7m ENE–WSW) defined by a low denuded stony bank (Wth 1.9–3.5m; H 0.3–0.5m). A 2.4m gap at S appears to be modern. A rectangular house site (CL002-018002-) of indeterminate date is located SW of the centre of the enclosure. A later field wall runs on the outer edge of the bank, SE–N, and a second wall runs NNW–SSE across the interior and over the site of the house.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
References
Ó Murchadha, D. 1993 Nationality Names in the Irish Annals. Nomina 16, 49–70.
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The cahers of county Clare: their names, features, and bibliography. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Series 3, vol. 6, 415-49.
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Threshing floorunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.