Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Derreen East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreen East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.09384, -9.30198
- SMR number
- CL004-011----
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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 the NW slope of a gentle ridge, in good pasture, with good views from the W–N. 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 poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (int. dims 29.7m N–S; 21.8m E–W; ext. dims 33.8m N–S; 31.6 E–W) defined by a stony bank (Wth 1.5–2.1m) with outer facing surviving best from S–N (max. H 0.7m). There is no evidence of an original entrance. A bank extending W from NW may be part of a contemporary field system (CL004-102----). A later field wall runs on the edge from NE–SSE and there is a modern pen on the NE–ENE edge.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 17 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.