Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Scanlan'S Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scanlan'S Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.14461, -9.11162
- SMR number
- CL002-019----
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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 SE-facing downslope on good meadowland on the E landward side of a tidal island named Scanlan’s Island. A sheltered location, accessible at low tide from mainland to NE. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved oval cashel (int. dims. 50.3m NW–SE from crest of spread at NW to top of scarp at SE; 34.5m ENE–WSW crest to crest), defined by a low grassed-over stony spread with outer facing-stones visible at WSW. A modern field wall, not on the 1915 OS 6-inch map extends NW-SE along the bank. A rectangular house (CL002-019002-) of indeterminate date is located in the SW quadrant.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.