Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonmartin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmartin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloonmartin Caher
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloonmartin Caher (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08470, -9.18122
- SMR number
- CL005-028----
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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 the NE slopes of a fertile ridge in reclaimed pasture. Hachured and named ‘Cloonmartin Caher’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as a cashel in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1901, 278) as a ‘caher… reduced to a ring of low and broken mounds’.
The SW of a pair of very overgrown and poorly preserved cashels (see also CL005-028002-). It is roughly circular (diam. 24.5m) and defined by a bank of earth and stone (at E: Wth 4.6m; H 1.2m). The NE side is dug into the hillside and therefore the internal height of the enclosing element is higher (c. 2m). The interior slopes slightly to the N. Clearance material lies on the enclosing element from NE to SSW and rubble is built up against the interior at W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 26 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.