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Ringfort - cashel

Craggagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Craggagh, 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
Craggagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1915)
Coordinates
53.09696, -9.30587
SMR number
CL004-006----

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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 slightly raised ground in an otherwise low-lying location with good views over W–N and within a field system (CL004-102----). Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A largely overgrown roughly circular cashel (21.6m N–S; 21.8m E–W) defined by a spread of stone (Wth 3.8–4.5m; av. int. H 0.5m) with outer facing-stones surviving particularly well from W–NE (max. H 2.1m). The interior slopes down to the S and a roughly circular outline of stones (4m N–S by 5m E–W; H 0.6m) is visible in the WNW sector (CL004-006001-). The interior is particularly heavily overgrown towards N and along SW. There is another cashel c. 60m to the S (CL004-005----) and two enclosures, one c. 60m to the ENE (CL004-008----) and the other c. 240m to the ESE (CL004-010----). Several of the field walls surrounding this cashel and its neighbour (CL004-005----) may be ancient.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maolduin

Date of upload: 17 February 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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