Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynahown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.06641, -9.32339
- SMR number
- CL004-074----
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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 a rocky ledge with a sheer cliff to the W and SW, with excellent views to the SW and W and with higher ground from NNE to SSW. Within a large field system (CL004-027001-). Hachured on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and indicated on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly circular cashel (diam. 30m N-S; 26.8m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-0.9m; int. H 1.3-1.7m; ext. H 1.5-2.2m) with outer stone facing visible (ext. H 2.2m at S). The cashel wall has been removed from N to ENE and replaced by a scarp (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m at N). The rocky interior slopes gently to the E and a later pen (3m NW-SE; 2.3m NE-SW) abuts the perimeter of the cashel wall at SSW in the interior. Field walls abut the cashel wall at SW, NW and NE and a gabled building (est. int. dims. 4.4m E-W; 3.2m N-S) is located outside the cashel wall to the NNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 30 November 2022
References
Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.