Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanore More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.10396, -9.26488
- SMR number
- CL004-020----
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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 high ground (above the 900 foot contour) with commanding views from WSW to NW but with rising ground restricting aspect from E to SE, and within a large field system (CL004-016001-). Indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map but shown c. 50m ENE of the location indicated on the later, Cassini edition (1915) and on the current OS mapping of the area. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A subcircular area (int. diams. 25m N-S; 23.7m E-W) is defined mainly by a stony bank (Wth 0.7-1.2m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 1.1-1.4m) with intermittently visible inner and outer wall facing stones. Outer stone facing is best preserved along the W (wall Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) and highest (H 1.5m) at SSE, but is collapsed between W and NW and reduced to a bank from NNW to N. In the centre of the cashel there is a circular stony mound (diam. 8m; H c. 0.6-0.75m). A later field wall runs on the outer face of the cashel wall from N to SE and field walls abut the perimeter of the monument at NNE and SE.
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 30 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.