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Ringfort - cashel

Caherbullog, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherbullog, 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
Caherbullog
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.09227, -9.25422
SMR number
CL004-016025-

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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 the E-facing shoulder of a steep ridge overlooking a broad valley to the E and sheltered by high ground to the N and W. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-). Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and indicated on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). An irregular cashel (30m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5m) which is best preserved at W where the outer facing is visible and is only intermittently visible elsewhere. Most of the wall which defines the cashel is modern (Wth 0.5-3m; ext. H 0.5-1.1m) and collapsed and overlies a bank of earth and stone which is best preserved at W, S and E (H 0.3-0.4m). The interior of the cashel is higher and rocky at N. Ruins of a house lie just outside the perimeter at W.

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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