Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09416, -9.14986
- SMR number
- CL005-048----
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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
Under hazel and white/blackthorn but in an area of otherwise improved pasture on the E side of Ballyvaghan valley. Indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the 1916 ed. Potentially a site mentioned by Westropp (1901, 282) as a '…(caher) overthrown and crowded with sloe and blackthorn'.
A poorly preserved circular cashel (int. diam. 33m) defined by bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5-4.8m; H 0.5-1.1m) with some evidence for outer facing-stones (H 0.15m) at NE. Several stone walls radiate out from it and field clearance has been dumped against its E side.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 March 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.