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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyelly, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyelly, 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
Ballyelly
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.09606, -9.27944
SMR number
CL004-016011-

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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 narrow shelf on the W-facing NW slopes of Slieve Elva, with commanding views WSW–NE. Indicated with a solid line on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Westropp (1901, 10) recorded it along with the other cashels in the vicinity. A roughly oval cashel (int. dims. 16.2m N–S; 20m E–W) defined by a very overgrown stone bank (T 1.8–3.8m) with inner facing (H 0.6–1m) visible NW–N and at S. The foundations of a roughly rectangular stone structure (CL004-01600) occur against the interior of the S wall. The interior is relatively flat, apart from a slightly raised area in the SE sector.
This cashel lies within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-), covering an area of c. 8sq km. A cashel (CL004-016012-) and an enclosure (CL004-016010-), also within that field system, are located c. 30m to the SSE and c. 60m NNW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 23 February 2021

References

Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.

Nearby in the register

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

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