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Ringfort - cashel

Croagh North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Croagh North, 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
Croagh North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.08953, -9.18912
SMR number
CL005-023----

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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

On a rise in improved pasture with views from NW-E, c. 60m S of and in a bend formed by Rathborney River. Hachured on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is likely to be the fort described by Westropp (1901, 278) as a ‘nearly levelled caher opposite Fuanaroosca’. Listed as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 25m) defined by a bank of stone and earth (Wth 3.4-5m; H 0.3-0.9m) with occasional external and internal facing (max. H 0.3m). The interior slopes sharply to the E and is heavily overgrown. A short stretch of overgrown bank extends S from SSE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 25 January 2022

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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