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Ringfort - cashel

Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Oughtdarra, 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
Oughtdarra
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.06266, -9.34201
SMR number
CL004-055001-

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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

In a low-lying and sheltered area located 100m to the SW of a vertical rock face and overgrown with whitethorn, hazel and briars and within a multiperiod field system (CL004-027001-). Hachured on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1905, 345) as ‘a late circular enclosure with a much older-looking semicircular mound inside’.

An irregular shaped cashel (est. dims. c. 29m N-S; c. 28 E-W) defined by a wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m in SE) and a stone spread (T c. 2-2.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m). The wall is best preserved at NW (L c. 15m; T 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) but the upper sections are of dubious antiquity. A gap at NE may be for cattle. In the N of the cashel interior, an overgrown rectangular area (est. dims. c. 11m NE-SE; c. 8m NW-SE) is defined by a wall (T 3.9m at S; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.7m) which abuts the cashel. A hut site (CL004-055002-) is located c. 35m to the E and an enclosure (CL004-055003-) is located c. 77m to the NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 28 September 2022

References

Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 1 – The Eastern Border. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 205-29.

Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 2 - west Corcomroe. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 342-61.

Nearby in the register

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

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