Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Poulacapple, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulacapple
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08428, -9.21638
- SMR number
- CL005-015002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in rough pasture near the N edge of a N-S ridge on the E side of the Caher valley, in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). A subcircular cashel (int. dims. 24m E-W; 18m N-S) defined by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 1.2-1.6m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.3-1m); intermittent outer wall-facing (max. H 0.5m) is visible. A natural gap (Wth 2m) between two sheets of rock to the NNE may mark an entrance. A later field wall runs on the inner edge of the wall from E to SE. There are two circular hut sites (CL005-015003- and CL005-015004-) in the interior. The base of a wall is visible running off the cashel wall at W on recent aerial imagery (Google Earth Imagery, 25 April 2021). It may be associated with the cashel or is possibly more ancient. A large stone cairn (CL005-015001-) is located c. 90m to the N.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.