TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

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
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.09288, -9.20030
SMR number
CL005-014009-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Under hazel scrub on an E-facing slope c. 100m W of the Rathborney River, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Westropp (1901, 277) noted it as overgrown, ‘much levelled’ and ‘confused by modern walls’. He also noted that a possible translation of the townland name ‘slope of the quarrel’ might be related to the ‘cahers’ (ibid.) in this townland.
A poorly preserved, sub-circular, bivallate cashel (est. orig. ext. diam. c. 43m; int. diam. 24.6m N-S) defined by an inner wall (Wth 1.5-3.4m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.6-1.1m), a fosse (Wth 2-2.5m) and a second, outer wall (Wth 3m; H 0.6-1m). The inner wall survives from NW-SE while the outer wall only survives from NE-SW. Facing stones (av. H 0.25m) survive in both walls but are best preserved (max. H 1m) in the outer wall from NE to SW.
The interior contains a rectangular house site, orientated N-S, in the N-half and a trackway and later wall traverse the site SSE-NNW.

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: 2 August 2022

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - cashel in Clare All County Clare records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map