Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Croagh North, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.