Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Coolmeen (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.