Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonmartin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmartin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08490, -9.18107
- SMR number
- CL005-028002-
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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 immediately NE of Cloonmartin Caher (CL005-028----). A very overgrown and poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (22.5m N-S by 21m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5-4.5m; ext. H 0.9-2m; int. H 0.6-1.6m) with four courses of inner facing (H 1.6m) visible at S and a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at SE. The interior slopes up to the NW (H 1.1m).
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.