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
- 53.09605, -9.14416
- SMR number
- CL005-052----
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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 slightly raised ground and under scrub but surrounded by reclaimed pasture, on the E side of Ballyvaughan valley. Indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the 1916 ed. Westropp (1901, 282) referred to it as one of ‘seven cahers’ in this townland predominantly ‘small and levelled… [and] quite overthrown and crowded with sloe and thorn-bushes’.
A roughly circular cashel (int. dims. 21m E-W by 19.5m N-S) defined by a predominantly stone bank (Wth 3.5-5.4m; H 0.5-0.9m) with probable outer facing (H 0.5m) surviving at SE and no clear entrance. A later wall runs on the outer perimeter of the bank adding to its height and concealing facing elsewhere. A small pile of loose stones is located inside the cashel, in the N sector. Cahernahooan cashel (CL005-054----) lies c. 150m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 8 June 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.