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Ringfort - cashel

Coolmeen (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Coolmeen, 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
Coolmeen (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1915)
Coordinates
53.09647, -9.25779
SMR number
CL004-016024-

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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 flat and exposed high ground in an area of good grass in otherwise rocky landscape. Hachured on the 1840 and 1915 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A circular cashel (21m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1.6-2.5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.6-1m) with a low original outer wall-face. An oval structure (7.2m N-S; 4.5m E-W) abuts the perimeter of the cashel wall in the interior at WNW and appears to extend outside the cashel wall (max. est. dims. 9.54m E-W; 5.3m N-S). A circular structure abuts the exterior of the cashel wall at SSW (c. 5.4m NW-SE; c. 4.3m NE-SW). Field walls abut the perimeter of the cashel wall at W, E and SSE.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL004-016024-_01.jpg Aerial view (ASI aerial photograph 2007)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 31 August 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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