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Ringfort - cashel

Derrynavahagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Derrynavahagh, 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
Derrynavahagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.08661, -9.23145
SMR number
CL005-008----

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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

Situated in hazel scrub on a small but steep knoll in the Caher valley and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Hachured on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map c. 20m to the SW. Depicted as a segmented field on the 1916 ed. Listed as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). Westropp (1901, 17) described this cashel as ‘a well-built caher of large blocks on a steep knoll; the garth is level with the top of the wall, which is from 5 feet to 7 feet high, but much gapped and defaced as a modern house and enclosure stand beside it’.

A poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26m) defined by an externally faced and battered uncoursed wall (Wth 2.3-2.7m) built of large undressed limestone blocks, only visible from E to W. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is located at E. A later building abuts the outer wall-face at ENE and several walls within the S half of the interior are likely to be associated with this.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 29 September 2021

References

Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.

Nearby in the register

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

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