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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyryan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyryan, 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
Ballyryan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.05901, -9.35473
SMR number
CL004-093001-

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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 a low rock rocky hillock in an area of scrub covered depressions with fair views to the N, NE and W. Indicated on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. A subcircular cashel (28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a drystone wall with outer facing visible from N to NE (T c. 1m; H 0.8m) and at ESE (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.1m; T 1.2m), overgrown elsewhere. A curved, overgrown, stony bank with internal facing inside the perimeter at S may be a house site (CL004-093003-). A souterrain (CL004-093002-) lies in the N interior. A large glacial erratic (H 1m) is located in the SW quadrant. A cashel and hut site (CL004-092---- and CL004-092002-) are located c. 98m to the W.

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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