Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Formoyle West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.10933, -9.24562
- SMR number
- CL002-023----
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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 moderately steep ENE facing slope overlooking the Caher River, c. 360m to the NE. Hachured on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and indicated with a solid line on the 1915 edition. Listed in the RMP (1996) as a ‘rectangular enclosure’. A partially tumbled single drystone wall enclosing a rectangular field (c. 22m NW–SE; 20m NE–SW). It may run on the line of an earlier enclosure as indicated by the hachuring on the 1842 ed. of the 6-inch OS map. Rectangular cashels are known in the Burren (Comber 2010; 2019; Bowmer 2019) and this is a possible example.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
References
Comber, M. 2019 Square ringforts? A contribution to the identification of ‘ringfort’ types. Medieval Archaeology 63(1), 128–53.
Comber, M., and Hull, G. 2010 Excavations at Caherconnell cashel, the Burren, Co. Clare: Implications for cashel chronology and Gaelic settlement. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110C, 133–71.
Bowmer, T. 2019 Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 28, 59–84.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.