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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1915)
Coordinates
53.06131, -9.33262
SMR number
CL004-065003-

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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 high rocky ground in scrub with good views to the W. Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Referred to by Westropp (1905, 349) as one of two ‘nearly circular’ and ‘nearly-levelled cahers’ with ‘walls of good, slab masonry’ (T c. 2.1m) ‘only rarely a few courses high’ (int. dims. c. 30-31m).

A roughly circular cashel (int. dims. 29m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a stony bank (Wth 4.2m; ext. H 1.2m; int. H 0.5 at WNW) which is visible from WNW to SSE with facing-stones (ext. H 0.4-0.6m) visible in the SSE. The interior of the cashel is uneven and rocky with an irregular rocky area to the SSW of the centre. Another cashel (CL004-065002-) is located c. 40m to the WNW and a hut site (CL004-065001-) is located c. 66m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 30 November 2022

References

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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