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Ringfort - cashel

Derreen West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Derreen West, 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
Derreen West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.08402, -9.30685
SMR number
CL004-103----

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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 NW terrace of Knockaunsmountain within a large field system (CL004-098----). A subcircular enclosure (c. 35m N-S; c. 32m E-W) visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photo (2005-2012) and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Another possible cashel (CL004-104----) lies immediately adjacent to the W. Three cashels CL004-003----, CL004-004---- and CL004-007---- lie 60-100m to NW, N and NE respectively.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL004-103----_01.jpg OS orthophoto 2005-2012.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 22 February 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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