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Ringfort - cashel

Ballynahown, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballynahown, 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
Ballynahown
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.06807, -9.33472
SMR number
CL004-061----

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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

Near the W base of a steep rocky crag, in an uneven and rocky area with good views from SSW to NW and within a large field system (CL004-027001-). Indicated on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1905, 349) as a ‘bold mass of crag’ which is ‘capped with a much-levelled fort’.

A poorly preserved, roughly D-shaped cashel (int. dims. 27m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a stone wall (H 0.4-0.6m; max. H 1.3m at S and SW; Wth 2-3m) which is best preserved from S to WNW and with straight walls along the N (L c. 26m) and E (L c. 23m). Possible hut sites of uncertain date lie in the NW corner and inside the perimeter at SW and S. Possible animal pens occupy the NE corner and continue beyond the perimeter to E. A curving field wall (L c. 23m) runs through the interior of the site from W to E. The walls of an adjoining field abut the site at NW and NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 10 October 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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