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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
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06446, -9.33319
SMR number
CL004-087----

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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 slightly raised ground in a low-lying rocky area overgrown with scrub and with commanding views
of the ocean to the W. A poorly preserved and overgrown cashel defined by a wall (T 2m; int. H 0.5m) with outer wall-facing visible (H c. 0.45m). The wall is visible from N to SW and is best preserved from SE to SW and is reduced to a stone and earth bank (Wth 3-4m) and a scarp from SW to WNW. The slope to the outer ground level is steepest along the S and SE (ext. H 1.7-2m). A later wall runs through the site in the NW and N extent and outside of the cashel at NNE there is a large natural boulder. The interior is uneven with overgrown stone. A cashel (CL004-068----) is located c. 80m to the SE, another cashel (CL004-063----) is located c. 100m to the SSW and a cashel and souterrain (CL004-062---- and CL004-062002-) are located c. 100m to the WNW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 13 June 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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