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Ringfort - cashel

Faunarooska (Rathborney ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Faunarooska, 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
Faunarooska (Rathborney ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.09098, -9.21287
SMR number
CL005-014002-

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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 on a shelf of the E facing slope of a N-S ridge overlooking the Rathborney River valley in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-), with wide views from NE to SW.
A subcircular cashel (26.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a wall spread (Wth. 1.5-2m) with occasionally visible internal (H 0.25-0.5m) and external (H 0.25m) facing stones. Two gaps (Wth 0.6m & 1m) lined by splaying slabs in the N wall may represent an entrance. There is a cairn near the centre and a second spread of loose stones in the S sector.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 28 July 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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