Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Faunarooska (Rathborney ED), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faunarooska (Rathborney ED)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09248, -9.20322
- SMR number
- CL005-014005-
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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 level terrace of rough pasture on the E side of Faunarooska Hill, c. 400m W of Rathborney River and in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Wide views from NE to SW and a wedge tomb (CL005-014004-) is located c. 30m to W.
A subcircular bivallate cashel (ext. diams. 43.9m N-S; 42.7m E-W; int. diams. 22.3m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by an inner (Wth 3-5.2m) and outer wall (Wth 1.3-2m) set between 5 and 5.5m apart. The edges are largely covered in rubble spread but facing stones (H 0.3-0.7m) are present on all wall faces.
Westropp (1901, 277) noted its presence but in his description appears not to have noted its outer enclosing wall: ‘ … on a shoulder of the hill 200 feet above the brook is the caher of Faunaroosca, a small ring fort built of large thin blocks in courses and laid as stretchers; the wall is 8 feet thick and barely 5 feet high, with small filling’.
An animal pen is built on and between the enclosing elements at N. The Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map shows a small square (est. c.5m x c.5m) enclosure, probably an animal pen, abutting the exterior of the cashel at NNE. A wedge tomb (CL005-014004-) is located c. 30m to W.
Westropp, T.J. 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part 2. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-92.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.