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Ringfort - cashel

Gleninagh South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Gleninagh South, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gleninagh South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.11796, -9.21278
SMR number
CL002-031----

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David 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle S-facing slope on the E side of a narrow valley floor between Gleninagh ‘Mountain’ and Cappanawalla Hill and within a field system (CL002-070001-). Marked on Robinson’s map (1977). Listed as ‘Enclosure (possible)’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved almost circular cashel (int. dims. 21.4m N–S; 20.9m E–W crest to crest) defined by a low grassed-over stone spread (Wth at base 4.9–7.1m; Wth at crest 2.6–4.5m). A rectangular house site (CL002-031002-) is visible inside the cashel, W of the centre. A derelict building abuts the NW and a second derelict building lies 2m to the S.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 9 December 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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