Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Newtown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11016, -9.16809
- SMR number
- CL002-039----
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 of improved pastureland at the E foot of Cappanawalla Hill, 1.5km S of the foreshore. Hachured as a full circle on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a partial arc from N–SE, with the addition of a ‘cave’, on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved almost circular enclosure (int. dims. 10.7m N–S; 10.1m E–W) defined by a wide moss-covered stony spread (Wth 4.7–7m; H 0.4–1.2m), a good deal of which appears to consist of cleared field stones. One internal facing-stone is visible at N and a possible outer facing-stone at S. A later field wall skirts the outer W limits of the site. There is no visible trace of the ‘Cave’, a probable souterrain (CL002-039002-), marked near centre of site on the 1915 ed. OS 6-inch map. Two other enclosures (CL002-041---- and CL002-043----) are situated c. 150m NNE and c. 270m E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maolduin
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.